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Why does NT hesitate upon minimizing?

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by bwhite

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I have a user who is on Win NT 4, also using Mechanical Desktop 5. When he minimizes the MD5, NT hesitates or thinks along time before opening another application. Why does it do this and How do I fix it. It is a brand new set up. Help!

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by 4u21der

A simple answer would be to Install more RAM in this users PC. Get a better video card that has atleast 64megs on the card itself.

The slowness might be caused by the memory being paged out to disk to many times and it is more than likley using alot of memory pages. The other issue maybe that the video card does not have enough on board memory and is using the systems RAM to perform calculations. Adding more video RAM would free up system RAM and get through the processor quicker.

The only other suggestion that i have would be to upgrade all the hard drives to SCSI. This will give you much faster disk access and read/write times. If the OS does have to page out alot of memory it will be a much faster process.

Good Luck!

by 4u21der

Another fix might be to also increase the size of your page file. There is a formula, i cant quit remember it i think it is:
(Amount of RAM x 2) + 128 = Pagefile size

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