In addition to what is referenced here and in the following replies
concerning the amount of memory and cpu needed by Money, remember that
what else you are running can and will implact how Money or any other
program runs. Screen savers, especially Webshots seem to eat up memory.
Likewise anything else in your system tray will use memory.

LJ wrote:
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I built an Epox K6 system > 4 years ago.

What I would do is make a new working .mny file using copy and rename
so that I have all my old data that I want to save as reference and
also have a working file that I can trim down with archive or other
means. This is the cheapest solution I can come up with.

I since replaced that old system with a cheap Amptron 850mhz AMD Duron
board for $100 complete, including memory. It's our 2nd system
networked with another machine. The old Epox started having processor
errors but before it failed completely it had intermittent Eudora
(email) crashes. I backup my data directory with a duplicate in a
subdirectory that I refresh weekly.

You're welcome. My payback time.
arthur
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On Sun, 23 May 2004 12:50:19 -0700, "Dave" wrote:
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My processor is AMD-K6-2 [at] 533 MHz. Thanks for the help.
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CPU speed is less important with large files than memory size. The
reason is that the hdd is much slower than any CPU so if the
application causes lots of paging / swapping then the application will
run very slowly. Put as much memory as possible (supported by the
system board / motherboard) on that older machine. Run the System
Monitor and watch the paging rate to determine if the machine needs
more memory.

arthur
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On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:53:46 -0600, "LJ" wrote:
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You don't mention you processor. MS says minimum for Money 2003 is a
Pentium 166 (recommend PII 300). I would suspect at least a 750 MHz
processor is really required. (remember MS said Win95 would run on a 386 w/
8MB or RAM).

My money file is over 20 MB and I have no problems with an AMD 1 GHz system.
I do have a PII 400 with Win98/SE that I use as a backup and Money is
painfully slow with the same data file.


"Dave" <anonymous[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:108c001c43ffe$bad1a100$a001280a[at]phx.gbl...
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Copy and rename sample.mny to something like test.mny (you can use a
different directory) and then double click on the test.mny file.
Experiement with this test.mny file. It is about a 4meg. file. My
largest mny file is 6meg and it runs fine with 256k and an 850mhz AMD
Duran CPU and a Western Digital 7k rpm hdd running Win98SE

Don't worry about the techie stuff I added. Tell us how the test.mny
file runs and the size of your slow running mny file.

arthur
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On Sat, 22 May 2004 06:14:36 -0700, "Dave" wrote:
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I archived and I've deleted my old investment quotes. I've
even added more RAM, but Money 2003 gets slower and
slower. It's especially slow after opening when I try to
add the first transaction to any account. Anything I can
do to speed things up?