Does MT4 get clogged after a while?

Kinda like Windows, has anyone noticed that mt4 gets bogged down after a lot of indicators/expert installation etc ?

I have a particular one i have literally only 2 charts on, a few minor indicators and it feels like its really struggling.

If so, is there a way to clean it up ? Or does it just need a whole new installation ?

Oh - and i have an i7 with 8 Gb ram running windows 7 64 bit - i cant understand why it would be a resource issue.

thx

Try reducing the max bars in history & max bars in chart in Tools>Charts.

In general even with sufficient resources performance can degrade due to memory fragmentation which slows down the dynamic allocation of new memory. Therefore best to restart programs now any again, although what the time period is beween restarts I could not say apart from the obvious observation that needed if restarting improves performance significantly.

The broker can slow down your trade platform if they what, check out FXCM they were sued for doing it. but it still happens especally around news events the broker makes it look as though your platform is working but it seem slow, I wrote a script that set off an alarm to let me know when the response form the server is not responsing. It went off today at 10:00 GMT when the euro news was coming out.

Keit

as cowboy mentioned, for various reasons trade related actions can be at times slow on the server end......

i run several mt4's on different accounts at the same time.... anytime a platform seems sluggish for normal non-trade related actions, i open up task manager and see how much it's pullin.....

if the task manager shows it's runnin high or maxed, look there..... if all the platforms are pullin normal, i look to see anything else has the computer hosed up.....

almost always it will be a indicator or ea.......h

suggestion to test:
run the terminal.exe in XP (SP3) compatibility mode