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> If you are not running thin clients, are your workstations powered by 
> celeron processors? If so, the lack of cache memory will slow things 
> down. More Ram will help some, ideally a minimum of 512MB per machine.

Mine is, as are most of the others. But, a quick scout around the office
shows that we also have a handful of P4's (no idea which version) and an
AMD X2. Mine has 512MB of RAM, but perhaps that's not enough either.

> Run Task Manager (CTRL,ALT,DEL) and check what processes are being
used, 
> particularly the ones that seem to be using lots of memory. Copy the 
> list and post it up if you don't know what everything is.

Outlook - 72,828K
Microdec RPM - 60,416K
Firefox - 46,696K
WINWORD - 42,264K
WINWORD - 25,776K
Msnmgr.exe - 19,696K
Svchost - 14,092K
Framework Service - 12,916K
Explorer - 12,816K
Skype - 11,068K
RocketDock - 7,804K (take a look - it's nice)

And a load of other stuff of lower memory usage.

Commit Charge - 962M / 1308M (what does this mean?)

> Are your workstations free of virii and spyware? If you are running a 
> full suite of Norton Antivirus or similar products, you may find it is

> using a lot of your system resources. Try NOD32 instead.

I think so - certainly haven't seen any reason to think that anything
has creeped in.

We use eTrust ITM, but I had to look up what that was. In doing so, I
found this:

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/505417.html

Could this be it? I mean, should our infrastructure be able to handle
this strain?