Re: Minimize. Won't Respond. Help?
- From: "Donald" <donaldhuang@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 20:48:59 -0600
Hi there,
There are bunch of reasons which may cause this issue. If your programs were running OK but slowing down gradually. When you cannot switch your notepad to the background and reopen it well, I would recommend you to clean up your registry and scan for malware or spyware on your computer. You will get quite a few links for that by googling. Sometimes antivirus software or some third party software will freeze your computer while they are doing kind of synchronization to the server of their manufacture's web site. You can check the settings of them and change those synchronization to be done manually. Here I got two links for you to check your registry and scan for malware.
http://www.optimize-your-pc.com/articles/programs-not-responding.html
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Malware-Spyware-Cleaning-Guide-t2852.html
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx
If all those games were never responding after switching from background, then there might be a memory problem. To improve that, you can make sure all the updates are installed first. Then you can use Msconfig to disable unnecessary services and program launched during startup. Then, you can try to change shared graphic memory settings in BIOS, such as AGP Aperature Size. You can also try to disable Appearance features like transparency or themes. In Control Panel, you can adjust the Visual Effects which is under System and Maintenance->Performance Information and Tools. Click on the Adjust visual effects link on the left pane and use the settings for best performance on the Visual Effects tab. On the Advance tab, you can change the virtual memory. Placing the paging file on a nonsystem volume may help. A larger paging file my allow more applications to be running at the same time but it may slow down your machine while reading content from there to resume your games. You can try different settings there and see the results for different possible course of the issue. You can also lower the resolution of the screen to save some memory. If the game can be run full screen or in a window, run it in a window. If you can see setting on the game says hardware accelerate vs software accelerate, use the hardward if possible. That may save you some transaction on CPU and memory. Make sure the applications are compatible with Vista. The last resort might be to decrease the quality of the texture or frame delivery of your games.
If you are not installing Vista SP1, the following patch can help reduce the shared graphic memory specifically.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105
Hope that will help.
Donald
"Aesop" <Aesop.3rs9nd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Aesop.3rs9nd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi, I'm Aesop.
I'm having a problem with my Vista 32 Home Premium Laptop. The Model is
a Dell Studio 15. When I'm in a program, like a game (ex: Left 4 Dead,
Combat Arms) when ever I minimize it, or change the volume, its still on
the bar at the bottom, but I never can open it back up. It always says
not responding when I try to close it. Any help for changing my
settings?
Thanks very much.
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