Radical slowdown on one system

[Richard Gaskin]

jbv wrote:

>> 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...

It only gets weirder than that, but thankfully with a happy ending:  he just
emailed me to tell me he did a re-install of my app and now hismachine is
outperforming mine as I woud expect.

So while he's happy with MC's performance, it raises a quesion:  what could
have made the difference?

-- 
 Richard Gaskin 
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