Eudora's use of excessing system resources

[Guest_imported]

I started on Eudora 3.0 ages ago, and under company pressure switched to Outlook last year. Bleach! <g> Now I've kicked Outlook and gone back to Eudora (now 4.3) and I'm *shocked* at the amount of system resources it's hogging -- anywhere between 11 - 15%. Outlook on it's worst day only used around 8%. I've tried all the suggestions on the site (quick-recipients, stripped ini) with no luck, and a few the site didn't suggest (like turning off spell-checking). At one point I had it shaved down to 9% and now it's back up to 11% again. And yes, I regularly clean out my active mailboxes, including the extra one I typically leave open for mail sorting.

This may sound like quibbling over a couple of percent, but I remember Eudora as a very small profile program. I never thought I'd see the day when it was more of a memory hog than Outlook. Because I also run lots of memory intensive apps like SecureCRT & AbsoluteFTP on a regular basis (and yes, ICQ, which I have pared down to it's bare basics), 2-3% can be a big deal. I'm now running a freshly restarted system with only ICQ, Eudora, and Netscape 4.08 (NOT navigator) and I'm down to 60% free. Doesn't leave me much wiggle room.

Any ideas for trimming back Eudora 4.3's bloat? How can I get it down to just the 5-6% it used to take up? Or can I?

All help appreciated. TIA.
DanieleB

 

[Guest_imported]

Uh, I mean &quot;excessive&quot;, of course. <g>

 

[buttersoft]

As a matter of interest, what is the total amount of RAM in your machine? Then the processor? Then the hard disk.

I also use Eudora heavily plus Opera + Paradox + Filemaker, I have all these open at the same time and no problems. I have 1 200MhZ Pentium and 256MB RAM, when I had 128MB RAM, I had problems. Steve Butterworth

Rome took longer than a day to built.