RM> I'm no expert on this opsys, except to note that
RM> on a 486/33 with 8M ram it runs like a dead dog.

Depends on what you want to do, but certainly 8MB is nutty.

RM> That said, I had fun on the one W95 pc in the
RM> workshop today. I tried to start PCAnywhere95
RM> (pain in neck, but that's another story)

Yeah, Laplink for Win95 is a HELL of a lot more convenient to setup.
Very decent user interface now, took a long time getting there tho.

RM> and was told that one of its DLLs was missing. So I fired up
RM> Explorer (son of that useless fossil File Manager) to look for it.

You should be using FastFind for that. Its in the start menu.

RM> Clicking on a subdir normally results in a file list appearing in
RM> less than a second. Clicking on PCA's subdir gave a file list, but
RM> each file took about six seconds to appear, the whole list took
RM> several minutes, much disk thrashing happening the whole time.

Sounds like you might have a hard drive problem. It may be retrying.

Tho you can also get the system being quite slow to bring up stuff in
an explorer window in a major Office app with the system very well used
with lots of apps open. Thats not reproducible to a particular directory
tho and doing it again after a reboot gets the proper speed back.

RM> This effect was repeatable, and was seen in PCA's subdirs
RM> as well. It was not seen in other subdirs selected at random.

You can get that effect if you've managed to produce a
very stuffed directory, lots of entrys in it. Thats a FAT
limitation. Thats well down on the speed of that effect tho.

RM> I ran PCA's Uninstall program.

You should be using the one in the Add/Remove software.

RM> It suffered from the same slow disease, and took 25 minutes to run.

Certainly seems to be just slow using that directory.

RM> I then ran

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