A floppy disk drive problem?

[john]

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I do Power Point presentatins. I usuallky create them on my Mac or
Windows 98 machine and save to a floppy, and then present them on a
Windows 2000 presentation machine at my university. (Unfortunately I do
not have a burner, nor a USB flash drive. But floppies work okay for
text and small graphics, and my presentations are not multimedia
dependent, so floppies work okay on both my machines). I usually test
the presentations on my PC and Mac and they both open up quite fast from
the floppy.

Test results

Mac using Power Point 98- 10 seconds for a 10 page slide using 7 graphics
Windows 98 PC laptop using Power Point 97- A little faster
-------
Windows 2000 presentation machine using PowerPoint XP- Estimated 20
seconds

This is odd since my PC is only a PII 266mhz, and my mac a G3 300mhz,
and they open up the presentations in no time from the floppy.
The presentation machines have much more RAM and are using a much faster
CPU.

Could this be because my PC is using Power Point 97 and I believe the
Windows 2000 machine is using Power Point XP? Perhaps the files are
being converted.

Or is it because the floppy that I use on my Mac is 4X and the one in my
PC laptop is about the same speed? Perhaps newer PC's are not getting
the fastest floppy drives.



John

 

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John <johnw_94020@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I do Power Point presentatins. I usuallky create them on my Mac or
> Windows 98 machine and save to a floppy, and then present them on a
> Windows 2000 presentation machine at my university. (Unfortunately I do
> not have a burner, nor a USB flash drive. But floppies work okay for
> text and small graphics, and my presentations are not multimedia
> dependent, so floppies work okay on both my machines). I usually test
> the presentations on my PC and Mac and they both open up quite fast from
> the floppy.
>
> Test results
>
> Mac using Power Point 98- 10 seconds for a 10 page slide using 7 graphics
> Windows 98 PC laptop using Power Point 97- A little faster
> -------
> Windows 2000 presentation machine using PowerPoint XP- Estimated 20
> seconds
>
> This is odd since my PC is only a PII 266mhz, and my mac a G3 300mhz,
> and they open up the presentations in no time from the floppy.
> The presentation machines have much more RAM and are using a much faster
> CPU.
>
> Could this be because my PC is using Power Point 97 and I believe the
> Windows 2000 machine is using Power Point XP? Perhaps the files are
> being converted.
>
> Or is it because the floppy that I use on my Mac is 4X and the one in my
> PC laptop is about the same speed? Perhaps newer PC's are not getting
> the fastest floppy drives.
>
>
>
> John
===========================

Hi, John!

My guess is the W2K is being slowed down by recordkeeping overhead. If the
W2K machine has an active connection to a HP printer, that also will slow it
down immensely. HP software does a huge amount of recordkeeping re. what you
do on your machine (and, who knows what else?) - I'm absolutely sure of
this, because I gave my mother a HP printer a couple of years ago, and ever
since then we've had to live with all that extra recordkeeping slowing stuff
down. The floppies are pretty generic from machine to machine; pretty much
standard across the entire industry. Small changes in capacity & formatting
from OS to OS, but basic mechanisms don't change. I just noticed,... Power
Point XP on a W2K machine? That puts the edition of the program beyond the
distribution of the OS. That in itself could be a problem that's being
compensated for, and could slow things down. Hope this was helpful. Good
luck!

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John <johnw_94020@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I do Power Point presentatins. I usuallky create them on my Mac or
> Windows 98 machine and save to a floppy, and then present them on a
> Windows 2000 presentation machine at my university. (Unfortunately I do
> not have a burner, nor a USB flash drive. But floppies work okay for
> text and small graphics, and my presentations are not multimedia
> dependent, so floppies work okay on both my machines). I usually test
> the presentations on my PC and Mac and they both open up quite fast from
> the floppy.
>
> Test results
>
> Mac using Power Point 98- 10 seconds for a 10 page slide using 7 graphics
> Windows 98 PC laptop using Power Point 97- A little faster
> -------
> Windows 2000 presentation machine using PowerPoint XP- Estimated 20
> seconds
>
> This is odd since my PC is only a PII 266mhz, and my mac a G3 300mhz,
> and they open up the presentations in no time from the floppy.
> The presentation machines have much more RAM and are using a much faster
> CPU.
>
> Could this be because my PC is using Power Point 97 and I believe the
> Windows 2000 machine is using Power Point XP? Perhaps the files are
> being converted.
>
> Or is it because the floppy that I use on my Mac is 4X and the one in my
> PC laptop is about the same speed? Perhaps newer PC's are not getting
> the fastest floppy drives.

Certain software that run in the background are usually the cause for slow file
access. Try turning off background indexing software like FindFast, and
background antivirus (for the duration of the presentation) and see if there is
any improvement.

Regards, Zvi
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