Re: A2007 reading A2003 files

"David W. Fenton" <XXXusenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Albert D. Kallal" <PleaseNOOOsPAMmkallal@xxxxxxx> wrote in
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When I look at customers of mine and I find that their users who
have machines that are unstable, I find its workers that tend to
leave applications running open all day when they don't need them
anymore. So a major issue of stability and performance is to close
down applications when you're done with that application.

This is crazy. If they have that kind of problem, then their
machines are in need of optimization, and may be vastly underpowered
for the job they are asked to do.

They should *never* have to shut down apps they are not using.


Well, your Experience is different. If you going to have adobe illustrator
loaded, coral draw loaded, several other picture touchup and editing
programs. You then throw in the adobe video editing system and you have a
problem here. Then the user starts ripping a DVD from one DVD drive, and
then decides to fire up the DVD authoring program and burn a DVD to the
other drive. And, they not yet closed their web authoring system. A good 4
gig ram and a duel core machine simply starts to run like crap.

You can't run all these applications at the same time. Furthermore, often
what happens is because the machine is slowing down, then they don't want
to close any applications because the load times for those applications
increases!

If they were just to limit some of there applications they have open here,
then they will find what is left over runs VERY well. In fact they get MORE
work done in less time. On the other hand sucking in a 4 gig video from a
DVD don't help while your wondering why the video editing software is
taking so long to load another video from the hard drive that is already
overworked and running like crazy.

At the end of the day if you stay within the limits of the computer you are
using, then you get better all around performance. It really that simple.

The machines they are using are not underpowered. Simply put they running
too many tasks and applications at once.

I mean in the early days when burning a cd you would not want to do anything
else while that CD is burning else you wind up with a coffee table coaster.
Machines today are far more powerful and I even burn video DVD's on my
laptop. However, there is users out there that can darn near kill any
computer you give them by running too much stuff at once.

These types of users just keep loading junk until they really can't get any
work done anymore. You'd be absolutely amazed at the number of users I seen
that fit this scenario. In a sense this is not a whole lot different than
people who never check or change the oil in their car....they just have no
clue.

For a lot of these users they think that there's not a problem when trying
to compress and write out a video to their dvd burner. And, then they decide
to start ripping a video from the other DVD drive at the same time. All the
while they have all their picture editors, title creating software , adobe
illustrator and adobe video editing junk that is also running. And, lets
not forget the basic office stuff like word, outlook and them browsing the
web

I mean, if you just running office (outlook, excel, access) and browsing the
web, well, then lets not be silly...any piece of crap today can do that kind
of work.

At the end of day restring the number of programs you have loaded and
running simply increases the stability of the computer.

There is no question that more and more of these power users will benefit
from 64 bit computers. Even adobe claims over a 200% increase in performance
by using their 64 bit versions of their video editing programs. So, I do
think that 64 bit machines can really alleviate some of these performance
and ram bottle necks. Many of these users need more then 4 gig ram (heck
that's only one dvd of video these days). However, not everyone has made the
move to 64 bit OS's as of yet.

However it is great to know that even office 2010 will have a 64bit version.
This will help some of those power users and there are some Instances where
performance gains in office will be quite significant when using 64 bit
office.

So it be a deal if everybody had a beautiful house with two car garage and a
nice big swimming pool, and it would be ideal if every computer user had the
ideal computer, but the reality simply not the case, and it is COMMON for me
to see some very good computers that are just simply absolutely overworked
and that computer is just swamped in terms of trying to get it work done.

If your experience is different than mine in this regards, then that's just
the way the cookie crumbles I guess. Everybody's going to have different
experiences in this regards.


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Albert D. Kallal (Access MVP)
Edmonton, Alberta Canada
pleaseNOOSpamKallal@xxxxxxx


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