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MS Word & Corel WP at the same time
Does nayone know of any issues or problems with running word and wordperfect
at the same time. I am experencing PC slow down. May be that is is using same resources? |
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MS Word & Corel WP at the same time
They both can use a fair amount of RAM. They are big programs.
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MS Word & Corel WP at the same time
"Quick and dirty" guidelines:
On Windows XP or Server 2003, 128 MB memory plus 8 MB for every MS Office 2003 or XP application open, 4 MB for Office 200 applications (Except Outlook and Access for which 8 MB is recommended. For Windows 2000, 64 MB plus 8 MB for every MS Office application open. Windows 98 SE requires 24 MB plus.... with the additional restriction that Office 2003 will not run on such systems. Corel Word Perfect, all recent editions running on Windows XP require 64 MB with 128 MB minimum being recommended. This suggests 4 to 8 MB for WP on top of the OS requirements So, it quickly adds up. Say Windows XP with MS Word XP and Word Perfect 12: 128 + 8 +8 = ~ 144 MB should give responsive operation. Drop to 128 memory total and you probably would see some occasional slow-downs because of increases virtual memory use and associated disk activity but nothing intolerable. However, given enough memory, you won't notice any impact having several large applications open while editing in Word or any other MS Office application or Word Perfect. I found 256 a good compromise. (Incidentally, picture editing programs might benefit from more (e.g. 320 GB or more recommended for Windows XP plus Adobe In Design and 1 GB or more recommended if any other application is to be open with it) with video processing requiring yet more). I have never experienced a problem having Word Perfect open and in use when any MS Office application was also open and in use. Generally, memory requirements are not as great as having, say, Outlook open with it. If you want to check further, there are newsgroups on Corel's server. Also, doing a Google or other such search on XXXX system requirements will usually give you useful information. [Replace XXXX by the relevant program name.] NEWS://cnews.corel.com Tom MSMVP Windows Shell User "pzh6371" u21479@uwe wrote in message news:5fb39e37d0e24@uwe... : Does nayone know of any issues or problems with running word and wordperfect : at the same time. I am experencing PC slow down. May be that is is using : same resources? |
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