Thanks Dan, I have just made that change [I had it at 4000, now at 6500]. Hopefully that will help. With the "mydefrag" program running that Walt suggested [thanks again Walt] it does start and run faster. I tried switching the memory chips around, but it is still as the manual says, running a matched pair in 1 and 3 [2 x 256 MB] and 2 and 4 [2 x 1 GB]. That didn't do anything. Once it starts working it is fine, but it is that 2 minute wait for it to process the first statement after a pause that is driving me nuts. The manual suggests a matched set of 2 x 2GB as optimal, but I'll have to be a lot more frustrated before I spend that amount of $. I am reminded of a friend who had a then new 286 when we bought our first laptop: "That is entirely too easy to pick up and throw against the wall". I may have to move my sledge hammer out to the back porch. Bill R
-----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of LWB250 Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 9:59 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - A computer problem I can't figure out On a Windoze XP machine, you should be running a fixed page (swap) file of 2.5x your RAM size. By setting it to a fixed size you will cut down significantly on page swaps. Otherwise, everything else sounds OK. Dan --- On Sat, 2/19/11, Bill Ringgold <billr32...@comcast.net> wrote: > From: Bill Ringgold <billr32...@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - A computer problem I can't figure out > To: "'Mercedes Discussion List'" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Date: Saturday, February 19, 2011, 9:42 PM > At the moment the HD is 32% free, > freshly defragged. The machine has an 80 > GB SATA HD with a 50 GB Windows partition and a 30DB Ubuntu > partition. I'll > do the checks you suggested and try out the dictation in > the morning. > Thanks - Bill R _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
