Re: Speed Up QuickBooks

Posted by Mike on March 19, 2009, 12:26 am

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Go to www.crucial.com Use the memory scanner to find out what type of
memory you have. Upgrade to 1gb. XP will run much better and thus so will
quickbooks. Memory is cheap.

Posted by Peter Secor on March 19, 2009, 6:19 am

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>Go to www.crucial.com Use the memory scanner to find out what type of

>memory you have. Upgrade to 1gb. XP will run much better and thus so will

>quickbooks. Memory is cheap.

Upgrading your memory is the best way to boost performance. It's so
cheap these days that you should go to 2GB.

Posted by www.GymRatZ.co.uk on March 19, 2009, 5:25 pm

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Mike wrote:

> Go to www.crucial.com Use the memory scanner to find out what type of

> memory you have. Upgrade to 1gb. XP will run much better and thus so will

> quickbooks. Memory is cheap.

I don't think memory is the issue.
I have a pretty old machine with a 3.2 Ghz P4 processor with 512MB on XP
and it has no problems at all with 135MB .QBW database file (Quickbooks
2004 Pro)
The database is even installed on a network storage device which another
2 PC's all access at the same time.

I actually use tightVNC to log into that PC from home over a VPN and
Quickbooks is perfectly usable. It could be that one Memory stick has
died perhaps. Now 256MB would caus a significant slowdown.

or....
There could be an over-paranoia going on (My dad was guilty of this)
where the machine has perhaps an expired commercial anti-virus being
loaded (Macafee etc) and one of the free virus packages installed e.g.
AVG Free, then a personal firewall (Zone Alarm etc) and no doubt a
spyware/malware defence like .... spybot S&D not to mention everything
else, AND I shouldn't wonder if they're not all set to "scan on boot" or
"scan on file access"
Seen it before so many times.
I bet that's the more likely culprit. That and not enough disk space on
the PC. Oh, I bet it's alos set to create a system restore point at the
same time as it's trying to do everything else too !

:¬)

The simpler the better, the simpler the safer !