Speed Up Program

[Burt]

Hi,

I'm running my MS Access 202 program on a Windows XP
Professional Notebok. I noticed it was running slow and
opened the Windows Task Manager. There were no other
programs running and I saw the program was only using
between 35 to 40% of CPU resources. I run the same
program on a NT 2000 Professional and I saw the CPU
resources at 95 to 99%.

Is there a way of programming the amount of CPU resources
being used by a program at any one time?

If so, please advise or direct me on how I can accomplish
it.

Thanks,

Burt

 

[James Hahn]

If a machine is running slowly while using less than 100% of CPU then this
indicates that the current bottleneck is somewhere else, such as disk access
speed or remote (network) access speed.

 

[Burt]

James,

Thanks for the reply.

Where would I look to check the disk access speed, and/or
remote network access speed.

The Windows XP machine is less then 2 weeks old.

Burt

 

[Joseph Meehan]

Hi,

I'm running my MS Access 202 program on a Windows XP
Professional Notebok. I noticed it was running slow and
opened the Windows Task Manager. There were no other
programs running and I saw the program was only using
between 35 to 40% of CPU resources. I run the same
program on a NT 2000 Professional and I saw the CPU
resources at 95 to 99%.

Is there a way of programming the amount of CPU resources
being used by a program at any one time?

If so, please advise or direct me on how I can accomplish
it.

Thanks,

Burt

There are many factors, like amount of memory or net speed of the hard
drive that your notebook may have that could slow down processing. However
you may find that just doing a repair and compact of the database will take
care of your issues. BTW I am assuming the database is on your notebook not
on a LAN.

 

[James Hahn]

There are many utilities available that allow you to evaluate your system
performance, including the hard disk subsystem.

For instance:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml

Note that it is virtually impossible to get all parts of a system running at
full capacity all the time - there will always be a bottleneck somewhere
(CPU, RAM, disk, video, network) and it will shift depending on the tasks
being carried out.
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