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RE: slow PC
To find the culprint (instead of doing all sort of measerements without knowing what the real cause it), as soon as your PC starts to run slowly take note of all the programs which are currently visible on your taskbar....
Second, press CTRL-ALT-DEL to go to the task manager and open the processes tab (this might take a while, but wait for it!).
Then look at what process is taking all the CPU time (it would be the one with the highest number in that CPU column, appart from "System Idle processes"). You can sort the column by clicking on the header instead of scrolling thru the list. If possible, also take a screenshot...
After that, close the process in question by right clicking on it and choosing "Kill process tree".
And tell us what process it was and post the screenshot you've saved.
PS1: when saving the screenshot, save it as a GIF? JPG or PNG, not as a BMP!
PS2: But indeed, you have a hell of a lot processes, which, I bet, you don't need half of them...
PS3: I see you're running Windows Media Player all the time? If it got corrupted it sometimes freezes up your whole computer, just like you described.
This post was edited on 12-29-2005 at 09:23 AM by CookieRevised.
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