OneNote 2003 Slow

[Avery]

I am having rather ugly issues with OneNote 2003. CPU rises to 100%, and
activity comes to a grinding halt on detailed pages where I am writing. If
you try and erase anything during this time, it eventually starts
reverse-time erasing everything you just wrote in the last minute or two.

Are there limitations on amount of text or overlapping text on a
page/section? Limitations on *.one file sizes?

HELP

 

[mgo]

I can't give you a decent answer to the CPU load problem, except to say that
OneNote 2003 does not do that on either of my machines. (not much help to
you, of course)

On the other question: I did a copy and paste of a 14 meg Office 2003 Doc
which includes several graphics into a new OneNote page and there was no
problem with a file of that size. I was also able to edit the file in
OneNote with no speed problems.

Other users on this forum will likely have more helpful answers for you.

 

[KC Gardner]

What are your system specs?

 

[Avery]

Hey KC -- sorry for the delayed response. here are some more details from my
prior post (no responses).

Hi - I'm on a tablet PC with 2 GB RAM and a 1.8GHz CPU, Windows XP SP2 Tablet
Edition. I am a part-time graduate student. I've been using OneNote 2003 SP2
for a while, but just this semester have intensively recorded audio along
with one of my classes.

It appears to be a more recent occurence, that when I start getting too many
notes on a particular page of a section, everything slows while the CPU gets
pegged. Now, I'm cramming a lot of funky info/symbols on a single page, and
am writing as a graphic. Let's say I decide to flip the pen and attempt to
erase something. Now, the CPU shoots up to 100% utilization (if it wasn't
there already) and the most recent text I've written begins to erase in
reverse, character by character, until ? or the CPU usage drops off.
Scrolling up or down or switching sections demonstrates latency.

If you switch sections and then switch back, then try to erase, you're fine
(though the CPU still shoots up). Also, in leiu of that, if you just waited a
while (without switching sections), you'd see the same successful, but slow
erase.

Blank pages write fine.

The .ONE file is ~12MB in size. Most pages within the section contain about
an hour of audio (files on the order of 6MB). I have no 'blank' or 'small'
audio files (a KB solution).

Lastly, I've shut down all applications on the PC, where when idle -- cpu is
very low. On the order of 600 MB free. I've also run AdAdaware and SpyBot S&D
anti-spyware utilities.

I've begun the download of OneNote beta 2007, with hopes that it will be
more capable of handling the extensive notes on a single page.

Any thoughts on this? Should I be increasing the amount of memory available
to the app? If so, how do I do that?

Any help's appreciated!

Avery