Re: Heavy drive activity followed by application not responding.
- From: md <mdkrantz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:52:56 -0700 (PDT)
Did some tinkering, and have been able to reduce the "not responding"
issue a bit. Did all the following things at around the same time, so
unable to isolate what actually helped. Some of the things I've
tried:
1. Added 2GB of RAM. Takes system to 4GB (although 32-bit OS cannot
take full advantage of all 4).
2. Switched to ATI video card with more RAM than previous nVidia
7300LE card. Important: Uninstalled the Nvidia drivers. Errors still
occured until the Nvidia drivers were uninstalled using the Programs
option in control panel.
3. Removed Adobe 7.0 startup item using Windows Defender. System has
Acrobat 9.0, so not sure why Adobe 7.0 was even in the computer much
less loading itself automatically.
4. Removed a "filter" called AC3Filter. Used these steps:
A. Find ac3filter.ax file.
B. Start the command prompt as an administrator. This is important
since step C may fail if you don't. Right click on cmd and run as
administrator (in Vista).
C. Unregister this module from command line: regsvr32 /u x:
\some_dir
\ac3filter.ax
D. Delete registry key HKCU\Software\AC3Filter
E. Reboot the computer (you may not be able to do step F unless you
reboot first).
F. Find and delete files ac3filter.ax and ac3filter.cpl if it is on
your PC
.
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