Help: Copying takes a very long time

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A Coyle

Hi

I have Win XP SP1, ~1GHz, ~500MbRam

Copying anything other than trivial amounts of data seems
to take a very very long time. On my older computer with
Win2000, copying a table from my excel sheet is basically
instant, now it sits there for about 5-10secs with the
pointer an hourglass.
Copying a results table from my Access database (~17000
rows, 5 cols) was instant on my old computer, now it takes
around 20secs.
Often I get the message something like "Item to big for
clipboard, not saved". Never get this message on my old
computer using EXACTLY the same files. Even if I empty
the clipboard it does not speed the copy process up.

Has anyone else had this problem and figured out how to
fix it? Does anyone know what I can do?

Someone suggested
- defragging. Had already done.
- page file settings. I checked mine and they were set to
initial of 700Mb, max of 1.5Gb. Would this have any
effect? Is there any downside to having a very large
initial pagefile?

Thanks in advance
A Coyle
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi

I have Win XP SP1, ~1GHz, ~500MbRam

Copying anything other than trivial amounts of data seems
to take a very very long time. On my older computer with
Win2000, copying a table from my excel sheet is basically
instant, now it sits there for about 5-10secs with the
pointer an hourglass.
Copying a results table from my Access database (~17000
rows, 5 cols) was instant on my old computer, now it takes
around 20secs.
Often I get the message something like "Item to big for
clipboard, not saved". Never get this message on my old
computer using EXACTLY the same files. Even if I empty
the clipboard it does not speed the copy process up.

Has anyone else had this problem and figured out how to
fix it? Does anyone know what I can do?

Someone suggested
- defragging. Had already done.
- page file settings. I checked mine and they were set to
initial of 700Mb, max of 1.5Gb. Would this have any
effect? Is there any downside to having a very large
initial pagefile?

Thanks in advance
A Coyle

.
might we be using office 97 on xp
Click to expand...

or old files created in office 97

clue =office 2003 is latest office version
 
-----Original Message-----


or old files created in office 97

clue =office 2003 is latest office version
.
Click to expand...

No, latest version

I have played around with the clipboard options and seem
to have solved the problem
Turning OFF the option "Collect without showing office
clipboard' makes the first copy fast/normal
If I keep the option 'Show office clipboard automatically'
ON, then copying the same item immediately again once
again drags and gives me the clipboard full msg etc..
Turning OFF both options give me the fast copy all the
time.

Does someone know the exact dynamics of how the clipboard
works?

Thanks
A
 
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