# Related to text and slowing computer
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/related-to-text-and-slowing-computer/2281
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 1, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/related-to-text-and-slowing-computer/2281 "2002-05-01T16:01:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/related-to-text-and-slowing-computer/2281/1 "2002-05-01T16:01:02Z")
I got a P4 1.7 w/512 ddr
why does my computer gets all slow when i put text boxes with more than 5 lines of text?
8o
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/related-to-text-and-slowing-computer/2281/2 "2002-05-01T16:22:55Z")
I’m sure LA had a problem with text a while back, perhaps he can help 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/related-to-text-and-slowing-computer/2281/3 "2002-05-01T21:44:08Z")
Is the text constantly updating itself… like in a loop? I know this will bog down the processor… other than that I’m not too sure why it would do that. Text is hardly processor intensive.