Radical slowdown on one system

[Scott Rossi]

>> When I run the WebMerge tutorial here on the slowest machine I have (Win 95,
>> 300MHz), it generates the tutoprial pages in 3.9 seconds.   I have a
>> customer running Win98 on a 1.7GHz maxchine and the same files take 4
>> minutes to process.(!)
>> 
> 
> Does your customer have things like Kazaa  installed
> on his hard drive ?
> One guy in our company recently experiencied major
> slow down under XP and Photoshop, and spent the
> whole day trying to figure out what had changed in
> his settings, and it was only Kazaa users accessing
> some files on his HD...

Here's another great one...  You may notice that Flash playback in your Web
browser is dramatically slower when Adobe products (Photoshop, GoLive, etc)
are running concurrently.  Close the apps and Flash runs faster.

(Personally, I find it hard to believe this is just a coincidence and
secretly theorize that Macromedia designed this behavior as a non-verbal
response to Adobe's litigious attitude toward Macromedia.)

jbv may be right in suggesting that the presence of another app, possibly a
filesharing package, may be the cause.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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