At 11:01 AM 11/02/2004, mal wrote: >Hi Chris > >That being the case will more ram and xp fix the problem? >and if so for how long? > >Maybe we should be looking to seperating the past data into year long >files etc? > >Regards >Mal Hi Mal, I have WindozeXP with 896Mb of RAM. I defrag my hard drives (I have two of them) every week (Nortons Utilities has an inbuilt scheduler). My hard drive partitions all have at least 20% free space. Hard drives slow down once they get to about 85% full, and over 90% full they can be up to 3 times slower than normal. My swap file is on my fastest partition, and has been moved to the front of the hard drive. (The front of the hard drive is faster than the back). I did a fresh reboot and removed all the programs from memory that may have been taking up either memory or CPU resources... I saved about 40seconds, which is an increase in speed of about 8%. Cheers, Chris. ===== Unofficial Price Predictor Users Group To send email to the list: ppug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Options: http://www.freelists.org/list/ppug Archives: http://www.freelists.org/archives/ppug Help : http://www.freelists.org/help/