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Name: Brian
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Date: Around 1995
Question:
I own a 486/SX 25Mhz Packard Bell, which originally had 130mb of hard disk space, but the DOS version I am currently am running (6.2) allowed me to DoubleSpace the hard drive, so I currently have approx. 117mb of free disk space. I have Microsoft Windows 3.1, and WordPerfect 5.1 for Windows. It takes a long time for Windows to load, and an Extremely long time for WP 5.1 to load. WP 5.1 is very slow running also. What can I do to fix the problem?


Replies:
Upgrade to a new faster computer... Or you can de-install DoubleSpace which would definitely speed things up, though I do not know how much it would help. Windows is becoming somewhat notorious for bringing fast computers to their knees. You might need more RAM too - 4 MB is sort of a minimum.

A Smith

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