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Check your Paging file size - go to control panel - system - and look in
advanced
tab - it should be fairly high for 384 ram - like at least in 500's and
should be set
for applications - not background.
Also - try this - go to Administrative tools -> performance. You can plot
various things
like Ram usage - interrupt time - page faults etc etc. Click on the +
sign - u will see
options. Keep this window up - plot one of each - then when your disk
churns - see
which things are using up most of the CPU - u should narrow it down a bit.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian McVicar [mailto:icm63@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 03:40 PM
To: OmegaList
Subject: Hard drive keeps running, computer freezes : Help ?
Hi,
My system
Win 2000 sp2
ADSL
Ram 384
Intel 660 MHZ
HD 20 Gig, 6 free
I defrag 3 times a week
I have a light on my PC named "HDD" or my guess Hard drive busy light. My
hard
drive churns over for, it seams ages, like a 2 minutes, and while it does
that
my computer wont do anything, mouse cursor wont move, nothing. So not good
for
trading. I have a an application that removes unwanted files (ie tmp, bak,
etc
and registry entries that have no key ( ie EasyCleaner from Downloads.com).
So it thought that I have a tidy hard drive, but it continues.
Any ideas
thx in advance
Ian McV
http://www.sold.com.au - SOLD.com.au
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