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by win_user_yuck

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I have several Dell L 500c's that are
on a novell network.

One of the systems runs very slow while the others
seem to run ok.

I have increased this machines memory to 256 Meg.

No improvement has been noticed.

It also seems now that when I am running
Office2000 and I open Excel, then I go to an
excel file on the server, it takes a long time to
open the file, and once open it progressively
responds to mouse movement slower and slower going
from field to field.

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by les

I would say its your network card if your RAM is OK.
I recently had a situation where a server was providing database and file sharing to 12 PC's in a local network. Everything worked fine - i could ping, telenet to the server and get to file sharing. However the file sharing and database access was always slower than normal. This was an onboard intel network card. Finally after some time i disabled the onboard nic and put in a new pci network card. Everything was working fine after that, no more speed issues.

Have a look at replacing the network card in your problem box.

by phil.hall

Install the newest client for Windows. That will be either 332 (for Win 9X) or 4.83 (with patch #1) if you're using NT/2000/XP.

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