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Registered Member #134
Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 10:44PM
Location: Belgium
Posts: 86
Hi,
When I push F1 to see the Help-function of a certain program (any program with a *.CHM help file), it takes minutes for my laptop to open it. Also, when I open Outlook 2003, it takes a very, very long time to open messages or to browse the folders.
My laptop is quite fast (Acer Aspire 3005WLMI with Sempron 3300+, 512MB RAM) so I find it very strange that it takes so long to open the program / files.
Does anyone have any idea how to fix this problem?
Registered Member #27
Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 02:20AM
Location: Hyperborea
Posts: 2058
Can you find out what process that is spending the time and if it uses CPU time? Is there any disk access? Do you have the latest drivers for everything installed and disabled any network devices that is not in use?
Registered Member #134
Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 10:44PM
Location: Belgium
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Can you find out what process that is spending the time and if it uses CPU time?
According to Windows' taskmanager, OUTLOOK.EXE, WINWORD.EXE (while Word ISN'T running) and svchost.exe require the most Mem, while System Idle Process and rundll32.exe require the most CPU.
Is there any disk access?
No, the disk-activity LED isn't illuminated.
Do you have the latest drivers for everything installed
At least I think so, yes.
disabled any network devices that is not in use?
What exactly do you mean? I do have a non-connected LAN-port, which is 'disconnected' but not 'disabled'. My wireless LAN is connected, though.
Registered Member #179
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It's possible that your swap file is too small and Windows is having to enlarge it, which is slow.
Go into System properties, click Advanced tab, click Settings under Performance, select Advanced tab, and Change for virtual memory. Select Custom Size and enter the same value in both minimum and maximum boxes. Try 768mb at first, and if you get out of memory errors, up it to 1024mb.
You should also try clearing your IE cache and defragging .
Registered Member #56
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
Posts: 2445
It could be that you set your message editor in outlook to me M$ word... Loading word is what is taking a ton of time. The setting is hidden in the menus somewhere, chang it to the outlook one and see if that helps.
As to the f1 thing, it is a pretty common thing for that to take a while, I think it is compressed or something and loading it takes a while. I haven't found a way arround that, Minutes does seems a little excessive though...
Registered Member #134
Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 10:44PM
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It could be that you set your message editor in outlook to me M$ word... Loading word is what is taking a ton of time. The setting is hidden in the menus somewhere, chang it to the outlook one
Done.
and see if that helps.
It helps a little bit; messages now only take 1 minute to show up instead of 10
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Help function & Outlook very slow on laptop
