XP slow when running WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS

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Dick Lutz

XP and all apps slow to a crawl when I have WordPerfect
5.1 for DOS running, even when it is minimized & inactive.

BACKGROUND: I still use WP51 every day, including for
hand-tuning HTML code and other purposes. I need to run
it simultaneously with graphics editing programs and
Internet Explorer. The bad interaction between WP51 and
XP is confirmed when an app seems to be frozen or running
very slowly, but speeds up and snaps to life when I exit
WP51. In some reading on the web, I have learned that
many users in this same predicament believe that WP51 is
grabbing all the available RAM and/or all the processor
bandwidth.

If anybody has a solution, I very much need it. Thanks.
 
WordPerfect is not a Microsoft product....it's a Corel product.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| XP and all apps slow to a crawl when I have WordPerfect
| 5.1 for DOS running, even when it is minimized & inactive.
|
| BACKGROUND: I still use WP51 every day, including for
| hand-tuning HTML code and other purposes. I need to run
| it simultaneously with graphics editing programs and
| Internet Explorer. The bad interaction between WP51 and
| XP is confirmed when an app seems to be frozen or running
| very slowly, but speeds up and snaps to life when I exit
| WP51. In some reading on the web, I have learned that
| many users in this same predicament believe that WP51 is
| grabbing all the available RAM and/or all the processor
| bandwidth.
|
| If anybody has a solution, I very much need it. Thanks.
 
-----Original Message-----
XP and all apps slow to a crawl when I have WordPerfect
5.1 for DOS running, even when it is minimized & inactive.

BACKGROUND: I still use WP51 every day, including for
hand-tuning HTML code and other purposes. I need to run
it simultaneously with graphics editing programs and
Internet Explorer. The bad interaction between WP51 and
XP is confirmed when an app seems to be frozen or running
very slowly, but speeds up and snaps to life when I exit
WP51. In some reading on the web, I have learned that
many users in this same predicament believe that WP51 is
grabbing all the available RAM and/or all the processor
bandwidth.

If anybody has a solution, I very much need it. Thanks.
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