It's a very big problem... I don't know what I have to do! Help me!!!! thx
Normally, it isn't. But it depends a lot on your system specs, since both XP and AutoCAD are resource hogs. What release of AutoCAD? Which XP Service Pack? What CPU? How much RAM? Lots of H/D space? What other applications are running when you start AutoCAD (i.e., virus checkers, various other utilities)? Just can't offer much in the way of advice if you don't tell us some details about your system. ___
It should NOT be a problem unless you have very little RAM or very little space left on your hard drive, or unless your hard drive is very badly fragmented (which should not happen normally with XP). This sounds rather much like a system configuration problem rather than a problem with AutoCAD (although it could be a bad install of AutoCAD). Do a Web search on the terms "optimizing" OR "optimization" AND "memory" AND "XP". If you have only 128Mb of RAM or less, you MIGHT suspect a problem with not having enough. Solution, obviously, is to add some. Before you spend money see if you can borrow some of the same type from another machine and see if that helps matters. The pagefile size and/or type can be another problem. Change your pagefile type from "dynamic" to "static" and give it at least 512Mb. 1Gb or more is better if you have the hard drive space -- but don't exceed 2Gb unless you use the /3Gb switch in your startup BOOT.INI file (and don't try that unless you've thoroughly researched what can go wrong or unless you're running XP SP2.0). BEFORE you add size to your pagefile be sure to defragment your hard drive. Mark 'Sporky' Stapleton www.h2omarkdesign.com
I'm running a P4 2.GHz & 768 Mb of RAM, now I moved from Acad 2004 to Inventor 9, which includes ACAD 2005, and I've noticed that BOTH versions, 2004/5 of AutoCAD are now slow in loading I also noticed that in the start-up menu item, there is file called "AutoCAD Start-up Accelerator" I have stopped this from being loading at start-up and there some speed up but not a lot. It may be that this is taking up memory recourse and slowing you loading time or another TSR program such as a virus scanner, spam filter software packages. So to AutoDesk the question is why is this file automatically loaded at start-up and what dose it do and what use is it?
