Please help with long-standing FP 2000 publishing problem

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Hi,

Running FP 2000 on Win XP Pro; 256 mg. ram, TW Roadrunner broadband is my
ISP. Host is GoDaddy; FP extensions are installed. Could someone please
help me solve the problem of FP taking a long, long time to just open a
web, and taking forever to save/publish changes to it? This problem only
occurs with this particular web when I'm working online on my computer. It
doesn't happen when I am working on this web online from other computers;
and my other webs open and save quickly using my computer (but they're much
smaller). Sometimes FP is just incredibly slow, and sometimes the little
icon on the lower right of the "save" screen just keeps going around and
around ad infinitum and I will get the message "this program is not
responding", and have to start all over again. FP Cleaner helps some, but I
have to re-run it and/or reboot every 20 min or so! I've updated my MS
Office 2000; XP automatically does updates; I don't have a virus program;
Windows Firewall is OFF. There was a time that I had to publish the web from
online to my computer, and things seemed to get screwed up after that. I
would greatly appreciate if someone would help me solve this problem.

Thank you!

Liliane

 

[Ronx]

256 mg. (milligrams) ram - I would get some heavier ram IMO 256MB is
not enough to run Windows XP PRO. 512MB is more like the minimum
amount.

How big is the website? How many files in the folder you are saving to?
How fast is your UPLOAD connection? How much free space on your hard
disc (the partition holding the Windows paging file)? When did you last
defrag. the disc?
All these factors will affect how fast, or how slow, opening and saving
a web or web page will be.

In addition, you may need Godaddy to run Server Health on the website,
to fix any problems with the extensions that may be lurking there.

The fact that you have to run FP Cleaner every 20 minutes indicates this
web is huge (or every file is in the root folder), or you have
insufficient RAM to keep everything required in memory - its not so much
running FP Cleaner, as closing FP to release some RAM.

 

[Steve Easton]

How long since you've deleted the temporary internet, history and cookies files??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
FP Cleaner
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm
Hit Me FP
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm

 

[Tom Miller]

; I don't have a virus program;

Windows Firewall is OFF. >

I understand that both of the above programs do take up ram and cpu cycles
but the viruses you could get by not having a firewall in place when you
connect to the internet and the need to have an anti-virus program scanning
everything coming in are in your own self interest.

I would also suggest you do a full spyware scan. If your uncertain about
some of this you can try my FAQ's at http://bccs.chatnfiles.com There are
many places you should be able to go to get good advice about what/where to
set things up. When your sure you have no active spyware as well as
viruses and the problem persists then you really need more ram....

I found there was a major difference in perfomance when I increased my ram
on an XP machine from 256megs to even 384megs.

If you have a copy of Windows 2000 Professional you could use less ram by
backgrading to that OS. It will probably will require a complete HD format
to do it......

Tom Miller, A+