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Senger · Nov 4th, 2005, 8:34 PM

This has nothing to do with anything else, but it's something a bit odd.

I use a Win 2000 Professional box at work. Oddly, when I try opening the Print or Page Setup dialogs in Notepad or Wordpad, those dialogs take forever to open...yet when I print or do page setup in Word, the boxes open immediately. It's bizarre, because by any measure, Notepad and Wordpad should take up less memory and CPU time than anything in the behemoth that is Word! I don't think it's an issue of caching either...printing in Notepad and page setup in Wordpad always take a long time to get going. It's just really odd.

Any ideas? (Yes, I know: "Why don't you use <insert name of non-MS text editor here>?" Good question. Notepad and Wordpad are pretty crappy as text editors go. Maybe it's time to install Textpad or something else.)

Nov 4th, 2005, 8:34 PM	#1
Senger Programmer Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 47 Rep Power: 0	Why do the smallest apps take the most time to execute...? This has nothing to do with anything else, but it's something a bit odd. I use a Win 2000 Professional box at work. Oddly, when I try opening the Print or Page Setup dialogs in Notepad or Wordpad, those dialogs take forever to open...yet when I print or do page setup in Word, the boxes open immediately. It's bizarre, because by any measure, Notepad and Wordpad should take up less memory and CPU time than anything in the behemoth that is Word! I don't think it's an issue of caching either...printing in Notepad and page setup in Wordpad always take a long time to get going. It's just really odd. Any ideas? (Yes, I know: "Why don't you use <insert name of non-MS text editor here>?" Good question. Notepad and Wordpad are pretty crappy as text editors go. Maybe it's time to install Textpad or something else.) __________________ It can be proved that you can watch streaming video on a Turing machine. The question is, why would you want to?