>>scan, etc) also takes a long time. I am not very familiar with NT. The tech that installed it told me that he installed it with the defaults. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can speed up the app? Thanks.
>>
>>
>>A Novell "file server" based application will almost always run faster on a Novell server than NT. Novell benchmarks way better at being a "file server". A few recommendations are: beefing up the processor and ram on the NT Server, making sure you run the exe from the workstations and having the tempfiles on the local pcs. If you were running the exe or app from a network drive, changing it to the local workstations under NT will offer you quite a bit of performance gain.
>
>We've had four machines in W95 networking in the office; everything worked fine, but we wanted to keep up with technology, so we started experimenting with NT. We've installed NTWS on one workstation, including file sharing. Now when this machine accesses tables or any other files on other W95 stations, it's darn slow, or even times out. I've seen the indexing routine standing forever on the 100th record of the first table, then rushing over the next few tables, and suffocating for a while over the sixth table etc. Yes, the temp files and a copy of the runtime and other libraries resides on the local disk. Just plain copying from another machine's disk seems to take forever, then bursts into lightspeed, then waits for the next forever.
>
>We tried the other way 'round - moved the apps to this machine and used that for a server - no luck either. It just plain worked fine when we had just W95 everywhere. Of course, if all the files are local, it runs whooosh.
>
>Anyone knowing quick'n'dirty trick to speed this up? Protocol is TCP/IP, machines are mostly k5/166 to 233, with 16 to 64M.


I'd also recommend checking your services and see if there are any that you can disable. Are you running anti virus software that includes the data files and associated memo and indices? Check you virtual memory settings also, if you can put your pagefiles on a fat partition you'll get better performance because it doesn't have the overhead of ntfs (it doesn't have to have tables for security, long file names, etc.)