I know that this is going to be a silly question, but how can I check to see how much paging is going on? Should I use the CPU monitor on the task manager? Two of the machines don't have Autocad and only run Voloview to view/print drawings. What do you think should be the minimum amount of Ram for those running AutoCAD? Thanks for the reply. Daryl _____ From: Tim Mangan [mailto:tmangan@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 11:23 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Machines running slow. I would look at the memory usage. AutoCAD can eat up a lot of memory. If memory is tight, there should be a fair amount of paging going on. Tim Mangan _____ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daryl Ehrenheim Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 12:38 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Machines running slow. This may not be an appropriate question for a Windows 2000 group, but here it goes. We have 4 machines in one of our departments in our Seattle store that are experiencing computer slowdowns. At first I thought that it was network issue replacing an older hub with a switch. Then they told me that all of their applications including those local to their machine(like Word and Excel) are slow. I then went up to the store and looked for viruses and spyware cr@p, but nothing out of the ordinary. No rogue processes or other various issues. All the machines are different with 1 being a Dell and 3 being custom built at different times. The only thing that I can see that is common to all of the machines is MSN Instant messaging, XP Pro, Office XP or 2003 and Autodesk Software. They each have 256 - 512 MB of Ram and connect to a Windows 2000 server for other various corporate applications. Any ideas would greatly be appreciated. Daryl S. Ehrenheim Network Administrator - Bargreen Ellingson (253) 471-3775