Help for slow projects

Question

As an Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) administrator I
have been having trouble with some of my instructor developers
having a very slow, and there for unproductive, running of
Captivate 2 on some of my instructor/developer computers. I run the
same laptop they are and have no problems. I found the difference
between the two computers was in the system properties.
--Right click "My Computer" chose "Properties" the system
properties window will open.
--Chose the "Advanced" Tab them click the "Settings" button,
the "Performance Options" window will open\
--Under the "Visual Effects" Tab select custom
-- Uncheck all of the boxes except "Show window contents
while dragging", "Smooth edges of screen fonts", and "Use common
tasks in folders.
Prior to these changes a simple task such as dragging text to
a new position took 6 to 10 seconds to get a response and dragging
the timeline items was near impossible.
For those interested we are running Captivate on Dell
Latitude D-800 laptops with 1.70GHz Intel Pentium processors and
1.00gb Ram,1.70GHz
Any additional recommendations out there would certainly be
welcome.

Answer 1

While this will speed up Captivate performance, be aware that
it also changes the "look & feel" of Windows XP. If you are
trying to capture that, this could be problematic.
A good tip if you are not concerned with replicating the look
of the standard XP theme.