Hi Paul,
The plot thickens!! I will try some tests with Excel and Access to see how
they run.
I use Word mainly in conjunction with Abbyy Finereader OCR s/w to proofread
large (400-500 page) documents. The latest version of Finereader together
with Word 2003
has the ability to provide a "zoom window" within Word which shows the
original scan
of the section of text your checking. Unfortunately the process does mean
that the Word files
do get rather large. I assumed it was the large file size that caused the
slow opening and saving
of files but when I checked with task manager, Word never goes above 50%
proc. usage.
Is there anyone from MS that can explain this??
DaveG
Paul Hubbard said:
Hi Dave; Interesting point you bring up. I saw a demo video from Intel
that showed off the advantages of Hyper threading. It used an Excell
Spreadsheet and video rendering software in the example, once with HP off
and then HP turned on. When turned on, HP made a huge difference and both
processes finished much faster. In 'single' processor mode it took much
longer to complete. Is Excell multi thread (support HP), but Word is not?
Both are part of the same software suite.
It seems to me some more investigation is necessary to take full advantage
of HP technology. Maybe MS could get together with Intel to write some more
about HP.