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Thread ID: 19251	2002-05-11 13:03:00	Photo program runs very slow	Guest (0)	Press F1

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48319	2002-05-11 13:03:00	My 133MHz PC has 500 MHz of RAM but it runs painfully slow when I'm cleaning up old A4 or A5 photos that I've scanned at 600 dpi. (For example using the clone tool.) I don't want to scan at lower values. Are there any changes to my computer settings I could make? Any other ideas? Apart from Internet Security, there are no other programs running. Dave.	Guest (0)
48320	2002-05-11 23:30:00	'500 MHz of RAM' shouldn't that be 500 meg of ram? if so wheres the other 12meg? on board graphics? doing pretty well to get 512meg ram to work, a lot of those older machines won't accecpt 512meg of ram. how slow is slow? has it always been slow? a 133mhz is going to be slow doing big graphics. it all depends on what you call slow. what os? you proberly need to tweak the vchache settings and also check how much harddrive space you have left. but really if you are going to do lots of graphics work then it would be best to get a faster machine.	Guest (0)
48321	2002-05-12 02:51:00	Yep, A4 photos at 600 pixels/inch are going to take a while to clean up. Image processing is heavy mathematics. It is probably just processor grunt you are missing. Make sure that you are running NO other software. (The major hog which it would be nice to turn off is Windows.) Turn off antivirus, network software, screen savers, all the rest of the things that start up magically at boot time. (Even if they are 'only sitting in memory' they are (1) sitting in memory, and (2) using Windows resources (to see if you want them to do something). Catch up on your reading.	Guest (0)
48322	2002-05-15 11:20:00	I'm also currently running a 133 MHz with 64MB, 2GB. I consider my system to run pretty sweet. I'm in the process of building a new system, but I run quite a few graphics programs on here. I also do quite a bit of scanning and my machine is faster than one I use at work (233MHz, 32MB, 4GB) I would reccomend first maybe cleaning out your system, how long since you reformatted last? If it's been a while and you do lots of things on your system, maybe it's time for a cleanout?	Guest (0)
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