[Logician]

Originally posted by GTGT
How much faster will the advance hack improve it?

I am hesitant to use it since it changes the database.

Advanced installation will cure the slowness dramatically. As a matter of fact it is for large databases like yours so dont hesitate to use it. Although my board is small, even I use the hack with advanced installation.

If you want to revert back your db to original values, you can do it via PhpMyadmin easily. The advanced installation adds a new field (news) to "post" table and adds an "index" to that field so that searching will be fast, that's it. If you want to remove it later, all you need to do is to delete this field from your table. It's no big deal, but you should always backup your database before every altering step anyway..This is a general rule..