On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 10:48 AM, George H. Yankey wrote: > I am having a problem with slow response when loading applications > like Apple Works or Elements 2. I called Apple support and they had > me run Disk First Aid. This corrected the problem; however, I wonder > if I am doing something wrong in the first place to cause the problem. > Suggestions would be appreciated.
How much free space is on your drive? If a drive is really full, new files are more likely to be fragmented all over the place, and this might slow things down. Another cause of slowness is lack or RAM. But, some things in Mac OS X will win no speed records, no matter what you do. The Eternal Rainbow Pizza of Time sometimes shows up from the middle of nowhere for inscrutable reasons. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
