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by mckb

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The PC is a PIII, 700mhz, 128mb Ram running windows 98 SE. The problem is in running ACT 2000 (version 5.02).

I can not seem to get this PC to perform quickly in ACT after ACT was upgraded to 5.02. The initial 5.0 ran beautifully. The remainder of installations were upgraded so this one had to follow suit.

ACT support have not found a solution. I have copied the networked database to the local HDD with the same slow response. I have Pentiums and PII's performing faster.

I have tried increasing the virtual memory, changing the type to File Server, increasing the ram from 64 to 128; nothing seems to help. I have followed ACT's ''Optimizing Win98 for use with ACT'' to no avail.

Other applications seem to run quite well. Accessing network folders is fast. The NIC is a 10/100.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Sincerely,

Barry

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by mhoward

It sounds like you have covered quite a few of the bases here. Have you run defrag lately? if the executable or paging file is all over the place it will surely slow things down. Hope that this helps.

by adza

Very interesting problem!! Have you tried uninstalling act and removing all registry entries, regclean after uninstalling the program?? Do you have anyprograms running in the background while ACT is running (ctrl+alt+del)?? Go to Start - Run and type in msconfig, this will open up a program that will show what is being loaded up at start-up that ctrl+alt+del sometimes doesnt show. Another thing to check is for virus's on the computer although this would be a long-shot!! I hope this helps if you have anyother questions feel free to email me, and if i can think of anything else i'll be sure to post some suggestions!!

by philthegreat

1) PII faster than PIII -->your computer has some problems; not the software.
a) Run-->Defrag
b) Don't use a lot of virtual memory which use the hard disk instead of RAM.
c) Clear your registry's rubbish.
I use the freeware: RegClean 4.2 from www.jv16.org
d) Not enough Hard disk for memory?
e) uninstall any software which is not needed; after than do a "regclean"; then "defrag"ment.

It may help you.
May God bless you!

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