Re: Gremlins

From: Dirk Goldgar (dg_at_NOdataSPAMgnostics.com)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:30:06 -0500

"Tcs" <tsmith@eastpointcityNoSpamorg> wrote in message
news:jgksp055shkfn87n4e58halm6hu4rvk5r0@4ax.com
> I'm running XP, sp1 on a Gateway P4, 2.6GHz, 1.25gb RAM.
>
> My problem is that all of a sudden the system can't communicate via
> TCP/IP to our email server or anything else. At worst, it
> starts...not responding. I may not be able to open something from
> the system tray. I may not get a response when clicking the "Start"
> button, etc. The only *fix* is to reboot my PC, which isn't an easy
> thing to do when it starts acting like this. And even rebooting
> every morning just to prevent this...doesn't he seem to help.
>
> The reason I'm posting here is, I *think* it may be a particular MS
> Access mdb that I've been working on the past several weeks. But I'm
> not sure.
>
> I've tried to periodically check available memory in Task Manager, to
> see if a loss of available memory is what's happening. It always
> looks pretty much the same, plenty available.
>
> I don't know what else to do. What to look at. Does anyone have an
> idea? A clue? Is there some sort of procedure/program I can use to
> help me find out what's going on? Or do I just need to keep a log of
> *everything* I do, to see if I can narrow it down *that* way?
>
> Is there some sort of standard procedure that I can perform on my mdb
> to see what resources it takes, and what it does/doesn't release?
>
> Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance,
>
> Tom

Have you checked in Task Manager to see if there's anything in there
that ought not to be? 

-- 
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
www.datagnostics.com
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