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by frank krebs

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I have a user with an IBM Thinkpad, running Windows 98SE and 256 MB Ram. After bootup, the system resources are down to 62%, and when opening Corel Draw, it drops to 30%. I have cleared out all unneccessary startup programs. Is there anything else, a configuration setup or something I'm missing, or is there something with IBM. I have searched IBM & MS websites to no avail.

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by dmiles

Correl Draw may be causing the problem check the manufacturers web site for any bug fixes

by ann777

Have you removed Office Fast Find? That eats a lot of resources immediately.

Start --> Run --> msconfig and click on selective startup and then on the last tab, uncheck those items that you do not regularly use (systray and explore are the twoones absolutely necessary for Windows to run -- everything else does not necessarily need to be preloaded).

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