Vantage Slow on some machines

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At 11:36 AM 11/3/2000 , you wrote:
>We upgraded Vantage from version 3 to 4 a couple of weeks ago. On Tues.
>evening we shut off the old server and have been experiencing various
>problems ever since. The main problem is on certain machines (Digital
>Win95) it takes over 2 minutes to get into a order tracker screen. Then

So you're now running from a different server and different mapped drive
letter? Sounds like a classic case of network time-out delay. The PC is
still trying to access something from the old server. Unfortunately,
Windows is often way too patient when waiting on a response. After 60 or
90 seconds, it *finally* gives up on hearing from the old server, and then
finds what it wants on the new one.

If you know your way around RegEdit, you'll probably find references to the
old drive letter & path. You need to get rid of those. There's an
UnRegOCX.BAT script in the Vantage directory that attempts to do it; I
don't know how well it works. Micros**t's RegClean, Norton Utils, and some
other utilities all try to clean up similar things, too.

>We upgraded those machines to Win98, which reduced the 2 minutes down to a
>reasonable time but still not as fast as when we had the old server hooked up.

Did you install from scratch, or over the top of 95? If you did the later,
then the problems I mentioned above are probably still there. In any case,
my experience with Win 98 is it's Dog Slow! at just about everything. I'd
stick with NT or Win 95 OSR2 for a business machine. If you have at least
64mb, NT is usually peppier that Win9x, and its networking can be A LOT
faster.

>Also the sign in is taking a couple of minutes for some machines. I kind
>of remember reading about this problem a long time ago and some
>solutions. Could

Assuming nothing else has changed on the machine, I'd suspect the same
problem I mentioned in #1. However, I have seen virus scanners cause the
startup to take as long at 8 minutes!

-Wayne Cox
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We upgraded Vantage from version 3 to 4 a couple of weeks ago. On Tues.
evening we shut off the old server and have been experiencing various
problems ever since. The main problem is on certain machines (Digital
Win95) it takes over 2 minutes to get into a order tracker screen. Then
another 2 minutes to get to another screen. We upgraded those machines to
Win98, which reduced the 2 minutes down to a reasonable time but still not
as fast as when we had the old server hooked up. Also the sign in is taking
a couple of minutes for some machines. I kind of remember reading about
this problem a long time ago and some solutions. Could those familiar with
this problem either repost or give me the Subject heading.

Thanks Ed
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There are several things that will have an impact. Though we are still on
3.0 they had a significant impact on performance.
1. See if those machines are using screen savers, if they are, ditch them.
They eat more processing power than people realize.
2. What other programs are running on that workstation at the same time.
3. What speed is the network card running
4. Do a FIND on all .tmp files on each workstation. I've gotten noticeable
performance improvements from cleaning out all .tmp files.
5. We had slow login's in the morning because EVERYBODY was running their
daily reports at the same time. We automated the regular users to run at
night. Turn on the performance monitor of your server to see if its cpu is
getting pegged out.
6. Is somebody running the internet and microsoft explorer. I've had one
machine's I.E. hang and drag down the whole network.
7. You should have all workstations that are NT upgraded to the same
service pack to prevent "NIGGLING" I think the current SP is 6. And
actually all the workstations should be the same operating system and
service pack.

Shirley H. Graver
Systems Administrator
Rubber Associates Inc. (Certified to QS9000/ISO9002)
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio


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