XP and MS Office

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I have recently loaded the XP Upgrade on 4 Dell Dimension
8100's. They are all 1.3 ghz, 128 mb ram, FAT32
machines. After loading XP Word, Excel, etc are running
real slow. Also, files on network shares seem to take
forever to come up. The network server is a Dell
PowerEdge running Windows 2000 SP3, 1ghz and 256mb of
ram. Once they finally do come up it is almost
impossible to save the file. It always comes up with
file in use or some other reason that it can not resave
the file. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks
 
Carl said:
I have recently loaded the XP Upgrade on 4 Dell Dimension
8100's. They are all 1.3 ghz, 128 mb ram, FAT32
machines. After loading XP Word, Excel, etc are running
real slow. Also, files on network shares seem to take
forever to come up. The network server is a Dell
PowerEdge running Windows 2000 SP3, 1ghz and 256mb of
ram. Once they finally do come up it is almost
impossible to save the file. It always comes up with
file in use or some other reason that it can not resave
the file. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks
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128MB is too little for Windows XP, and 256MB is just
barely adequate (with 256MB, a computer will slow down
over time due to increasing fragmentation of the hard drive).
If you upgrade the memory in your computers to 512MB,
most if not all of the problems should go away.
Defragmenting the disk(s) on your 256MB computer might
help a little.

-- Bob Day
 
Bob Day said:
128MB is too little for Windows XP, and 256MB is just
barely adequate (with 256MB, a computer will slow down
over time due to increasing fragmentation of the hard drive).
If you upgrade the memory in your computers to 512MB,
most if not all of the problems should go away.
Defragmenting the disk(s) on your 256MB computer might
help a little.

-- Bob Day
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Addendum -- Increasing memory, will not reduce disk
fragmentation, but it will allow Windows XP to keep more
of the code and data it needs in memory, thus reducing disk
activity.

-- Bob Day
 
Thanks, Bob. I wil give that a try.
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128MB is too little for Windows XP, and 256MB is just
barely adequate (with 256MB, a computer will slow down
over time due to increasing fragmentation of the hard drive).
If you upgrade the memory in your computers to 512MB,
most if not all of the problems should go away.
Defragmenting the disk(s) on your 256MB computer might
help a little.

-- Bob Day


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