unusably slow - please help!

[David Carlson]

On 2/4/2013 11:34 AM, patrick bremner 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?
>
This may not be a GnuCash issue.  Are any other apps such as Firefox
also running or running slow?
How about virus protection?  I had a serious problem with a file backup
program on my machine bogging down everything that used JavaScript for
quite a while before I figured that out.

David C
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