Slow print job startup

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Stephen Ford

WinXP Pro + SP2
Intel Celeron 2.6GHz + 500Mb ram + HP Deskjet840C

Over the last few weeks print jobs seem to take longer and longer to start,
perhaps 20seconds or more. These are one page text only jobs, no graphics.
It's a home build PC and completely new (4 months ago). Print jobs started
instantaneously in the beginning.

It's a business PC, so the only s/w is WP and such like. s/w is configured
to tell me when it updates like McAfee, Adobe reader, and XP. They all are
at their lates versions.

Any idea where to start looking?

Regards
Stephen Ford
 
In the last 4 months, have you done a disk cleanup of your PC, such as
Temporary Internet Files including offline? Cleanup the Cookies files,
Begin here: Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup.
Then, open IE (Internet Explorer)>Tools>Internet Options>Delete,
etc...........
Finally, Defrag
 
It's the extra time that Word Perfect has to take to negotiate the XP
firewall.
 
In the last 4 months, have you done a disk cleanup of your PC, such as
Temporary Internet Files including offline? Cleanup the Cookies files,
Begin here: Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup.
Then, open IE (Internet Explorer)>Tools>Internet Options>Delete,
etc...........
Finally, Defrag
Click to expand...

Good ideas. I will have a go and see what happens.

Stephen
 
It's the extra time that Word Perfect has to take to negotiate the XP
firewall.
Click to expand...

Well, it was OK to start with, so why the change? I will try the cleanup and
defrag as our other friend suggests and report back.

Stephen
 
After cleaning up and a defrag, print jobs start a lot more quickly. The
printer responds instantly, even if with a graphics job, the job takes a ten
to twenty seconds to download. Text jobs start within seconds.

I hadn't thought that this would be the cause with a 2.6GHz processor and
75% free of a 30Gb system partition.

Thanks
Stephen Ford
 
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