re: winxp way slower than winme
Thursday, November 22, 2001 at 6:31 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John Alexander
(4 messages posted)
The spreadsheet has 5 "sheets", each with a chart. When I switch from sheet to sheet
the cpu usage spikes to 20% for one second and the system keeps running fine, but
when I switch to the biggest chart (about three times as much data as the others)
the cpu usage spikes to 100% and stays there for about two minutes, and the performance
monitor graph actually halts during that time, as do my other apps that are running
(each of which need minimal resource). Maybe if I could figure out how to dedicate
100MB or so of memory to the spreadsheet, that might work? 123.exe takes up about
25MB of memory when this spreadsheet is running. But I don't know if the constraint
is memory or not..
On Thursday, November 22, 2001 at 6:03 pm, Byron Dowell wrote:
>Do you have any type of numbers on your calculation speeds? I just upgraded a Windows
>ME machine to XP and have not noticed any major performance changes with any of
my
>apps, but I don't have any large spreadsheets. I could do some synthetic benchmarking
>and see.
>
>You really shouldn't notice any improvements in raw speed, but things do run more
>smoothly, especially games and multimedia. I could notice minor glitches in DVD
>playback, but now almost all of that is gone, and brackground apps seem to not affect
>speed sensitive things like games and DVD's.
>
>However, that's one thing to check. Check out your Services and popup the process
>monitor, order by CPU useage, and see if there is anything that's perhaps using
a
>lot of CPU.
>
>
>On Thursday, November 22, 2001 at 5:38 pm, John Alexander wrote:
>Hi,
>I run a lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet every day that is 8MB in size and has 6 charts on
>it that draw from 15000 lines of data. When I went from a 256MB 600mhz win98 machine
>to a 512MB 1.4ghz winme machine, the spreadsheet calculations speeded up considerably.
>Well I just upgraded that 1.4ghz machine to winxp and now the spreadsheet is slower
>than ever. I am hoping someone has some advice as to how I might tweak xp to speed
>it up. I tried downloading tweak-xp from http://www.totalidea.de/frameset-tweakxp.htm
>and got errors that a dll and ocx file failed to register, so I am not able to see
>if that could help. Thanks for any help.
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