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slow interface for Mathematica 8.01

From	Chris Burdzy <burdzy77@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	slow interface for Mathematica 8.01
Date	2011-05-17 11:45 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
Message-ID	<iqtn5m$iii$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink)

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I wonder if anyone has advice as to why Mathematica 8.01 has extremely slow interface on my 1 year old Win 7 PC. I have the same Mathematica 8.01 installed on a 4 year old PC running Win XP and its interface is normally fast.

By slow interface I mean that when I type "Plot[Sin[x], {x,1,10}]" on XP machine, the letters appear at the speed at which I type. On Win 7 machine, the letters appear on the screen at a speed *much* slower than human typing.
Also, after a cell is executed, it takes a few seconds before Mathematica on Win 7 would accept any new input from the user.
The computation in the background (loops) are faster on Win 7 (newer machine) than on XP (older machine), as expected.

Did I unknowingly activate some sophisticated interface feature on Win 7 PC?

Thanks, Chris

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slow interface for Mathematica 8.01 Chris Burdzy <burdzy77@gmail.com> - 2011-05-17 11:45 +0000
  Re: slow interface for Mathematica 8.01 David Bailey <dave@removedbailey.co.uk> - 2011-05-18 11:15 +0000

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