Is it a gradual slowdown over time, or a sporadic, sudden drop? If the
latter, look for and kill Microsoft's FindFast - it's a file indexing
service installed with Office which uses idle time to index all the files on
your hard drive. Only problem is that it's not very good at detecting idle
time.

Philo

-----Original Message-----
From: John Morgan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 1:24 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] CPU Speed


I suggest defragging your hard drive.  Also make sure your hard drive
has plenty of room for swap files.

K-KarlKuller wrote:

>     Could anyone tell me what to look for when I notice a
> significant slowdown in CPU speed?
>

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