unusably slow - please help!

[Keith Bellairs]

Last time that happened to me it turned out that a hard drive was failing.
Are you seeing problems with any other apps?

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:34 PM, patrick bremner
<patrick.bremner at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am trying to run gnu-cash (2.4.11) on Windows 7. My laptop seems to work
> overtime when this application is running. Whenever I change something like
> making an account a place-holder account the pc seems to goto sleep (can't
> do anything) but actually the fans run at full power, the cpu usage etc
> spikes. this lasts for about 40 seconds and then it goes back to normal;
> until I make another change. I have tried to set the auto backup to never
> (I originally had it backing up automatically) but this doesnt seem to
> help.
>
> I ended up deleting the entire application and files and started again by
> downloading clean. Same result.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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> Regards,
>
> Patrick Bremner
> Bonnyton Sawmill
> Haenertsburg
> Limpopo
> 082 903 8161
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