Well, the first thing you could do is increase the RAM to maximum.

Another thing you could possibly do (depending on which ROM you've got) is upgrade to a 166 MHz 603e CPU from a 1400/166. Of course, a G3 upgrade would be much better.

The 1400 has a slow bus speed. At only 33 MHz, it will never be very speedy, but a G3 would be much better even at that speed.

Oh, you could also upgrade the hard drive to something a little faster.

In the end, though, I'm not sure there is much you can do to really improve the performance of a 1400 other than installing a CPU upgrade like a G3. The video card and bus speed will really slow you down when doing things like web browsing.

You could try downgrading your OS to 8.1 (but if you need CarbonLib 1.6, you'll need to stick with 8.6).

Absolutely make sure Virtual Memory is turned off. VM will seriously choke that machine. If you MUST use a VM system, make sure it is only set to 1 MB greater than your installed RAM (41 MB).

Does anybody else have any ideas?

Peace,
Drew
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