Senger

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.)

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big_k105

They both take the same amount for me. both Word is quick and so is notepad and wordpad. Sorry I dont have a clue why that would be like that for you.

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Senger

I'm not complaining: it's not a problem. I'm just intrigued....

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DaWei

Have you defragged recently? Does your hard-drive light do a lot of flickering while these apps are loading?

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Dameon

On just about any modern machine, notepad and wordpad load almost instantly. Your case is not one that I am familiar with.

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bl00dninja

same here, it's probably machine-dependant. there's one computer in the computer lab at school that almost had me throwing the monitor across the room today because of stuff like this.

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ivan

that's strange... I had a similar problem with 'find'...

coldDeath

As DaWei suggested, try to defrag you harddrive with the windows instalation.

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Senger

Well, yes, the hard drive is in desparate need of some cleanup. Lots of unneeded, undeleted binaries, that sort of thing; the disk is probably a veritable patchwork of free vs. used space. Thanks for all your tips.

(It's not as bad as it once was. I once had to install Oracle Server on my machine to do some testing; it took up so much disk space, I ran out of virtual memory! Since then, I can't recall if I've defragged.)

I'll try some serious disk maintenance, then see if it's still an issue. It's just that as I noted, oddly, processor/memory-intensive juggernauts like Word seem to run fine; it's these small, humble programs that seem to take long to do things.

Of course, to really start afresh, there's always
but MIS would have a fit.

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My gosh, just start defrag when you leave for the day. File fragmentation doesn't have a lot to do with whether or not a program is a juggernaut. Disk drives are so fast these days that no one seems to appreciate that they are STILL orders of magnitude slower than memory accesses. It takes milliseconds to move the head about on its little leadscrew, even on a small platter. Rotation of the platter until the appropriate data is under the head isn't instantaneous, either. Is 7200 RPM slow or fast? Are you trying to hop on a merry-go-round, or access data rapidly? It's all relative.

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