Certain operations EXTREMELY slow on 64 bit Vista Premium: openingfile, printing,...

Certain operations are extemely slow. After I choose the command or menu
item, the progress bar freezes about at the 50% point and there is no
CPU or disk activity at all for over a minute. These operations have the
problem:

- Opening a file (even a tiny template) in CorelDraw X3
- Printing anything, on any network printer
- Certain dialog boxes in certain applications

Oddly, many apps seem to have no problem at all (eg Autodesk 3ds Max
2009, a 6 year old copy of Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8, etc). Also, although
Coreldraw takes ages to open any file, it saves a file in normal time.

System: Dell Precision T7400 workstation, Vista Premium 64 bit, single
3ghz Xeon quad core cpu. Two 300 GB SAS (serial attached SCSI) hard
drives; C has original Windows XP Pro 32 bit, and D has Vista 64 bit.
Problems occur regardless of which hard drive the file is on. Both have
lots of free space and I have run defrag and virus scans. This problem
has existed since day 1 of me installing Vista on the new D drive.

smlunatick wrote:
> On Nov 16, 4:46 pm, Gary Hasler <garyhas...@thelogconnection.com>
> wrote:
>> Certain operations are extemely slow. After I choose the command or menu
>> item, the progress bar freezes about at the 50% point and there is no
>> CPU or disk activity at all for over a minute. These operations have the
>> problem:
>>
>> - Opening a file (even a tiny template) in CorelDraw X3
>> - Printing anything, on any network printer
>> - Certain dialog boxes in certain applications
>>
>> Oddly, many apps seem to have no problem at all (eg Autodesk 3ds Max
>> 2009, a 6 year old copy of Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8, etc). Also, although
>> Coreldraw takes ages to open any file, it saves a file in normal time.
>>
>> System: Dell Precision T7400 workstation, Vista Premium 64 bit, single
>> 3ghz Xeon quad core cpu. Two 300 GB SAS (serial attached SCSI) hard
>> drives; C has original Windows XP Pro 32 bit, and D has Vista 64 bit.
>> Problems occur regardless of which hard drive the file is on. Both have
>> lots of free space and I have run defrag and virus scans. This problem
>> has existed since day 1 of me installing Vista on the new D drive.
>
> How much RAM?
4 GB...enough that I never run into disk swapping slowdowns with the
programs mentioned above.