Why does my machine take so long to save a file?

[Tim Zych]

Excel workbook.

Pentium 4, Windows 2000.

Save it, it hangs there for several seconds then saves.

but also have a Pentium 3, Windows 2000. Save a file and it saves instantly.

Why is that?

 

[Madhur Ahuja]

Excel workbook.

Pentium 4, Windows 2000.

Save it, it hangs there for several seconds then saves.

but also have a Pentium 3, Windows 2000. Save a file and it saves
instantly.

Why is that?

Hello

This could be a disk problem. Perform the diagnosis of your disk through a
tool, which can be normally downloaded through manufacturer's site.

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Madhur Ahuja
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[Tim Zych]

thanks. however, I have tried 3 different hard drives. A Seagate, Maxtor and
Western Digital.

they all produced the same result.

 

[Madhur Ahuja]

thanks. however, I have tried 3 different hard drives. A Seagate,
Maxtor and Western Digital.

they all produced the same result.

Hello

Could be possible that, IO Access is continous in that machine.
When you save the file, observer the CPU Activity inTask manager.
How does it behave. Download Filemon from Systinternals and observe if
there is any continous file access activity.

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Winners dont do different things, they do things differently.

Madhur Ahuja
India

Homepage : http://madhur.netfirms.com
Email : madhur<underscore>ahuja<at>yahoo<dot>com

 

[Tim Zych]

Activity before saving (doing nothing) is between 0 and 2%.

CTRL + S to save the spreadsheet, activity still at 0% until status bar in
Excel indicates it is saving.

Then the activity blips up to 11% for the second it takes to save.