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RE: My sick computer



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Aside from the turbo suggestion. How are you doing on disk drive space. If your 
enhanced memory usually uses 175 mg and you are now down to 50 mg of disk space 
you will notice a slowdown as well.

Harley

On Fri, 04 Jul 1997 12:40:44 EDT,
Thurl C Van Kirk wrote...
>Anyone can jump on this-- feel free to do so.  Two days ago, out of a
>clear blue, hotter than Hades sky, my 486 Amita computer has started
>working about half speed.  Look fellows, i'm a user, not an expert on
>what's inside the box.  When I say "half-speed", the little red light
>flickering has noticeably slowed.  I have run a Scan disk-- no problems
>found on c-dr.  Also ran Diskopt.  47,600 clusters moved for better
>efficiency. Took about one hour and 45 min to complete that operation. 
>However, no mention made of any corrections to make.  Any ideas? Yes,
>I'll take it to the computer shop. Hate to be such a complete dummy about
>this-- what can cause such a crazy thing?  It still performs, but
>sooooooo slow.  Even hard to get Juno to work. Have to hit a couple
>times.  Thanks--T.C.
>
>

Harley Meyer
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