Re: Computer takes forever to startup/do things

Dot

You haven't tried Page File Monitor for XP:
http://www.dougknox.com/

but I guess judging by "Yes I do a lot of photo touchups etc with Digital
Image
Pro 10 and the computer hangs up" that your pagefile in use will go much
higher than 50 mb.

More memory will help!

How large is your hard drive? Is it partitioned? How much free space on
each drive / partition. How is the drive formatted -FAT32 or NTFS. To
get this information whilst in Windows Explorer place the cursor on each
drive in turn, right click and select Properties.

What is your CPU speed? Right click on the My Computer icon on your
Desktop, select Properties to get this information.

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



"dotbowels" <dotbowels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7F0DADF6-F354-46F5-A207-AF18A18F3309@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the
> Performance Tab. What is the Total, the Commit Charge
> and the Peak?
>
> You may check on pagefile (virtual memory) usage with
> Page File Monitor for XP:
> http://www.dougknox.com/
>
>
> Original message said 256mb do i need to double up, I actually have 512mb
> and run slow so wondering if I should double ??? Advice in next
> paragraph,
> results below that. Results are meaningless to me. Any help appreciated.
> Thanks Dorothy
>
> "If you get anything much more than 50 mb virtual memory
> usage for most users this means you need to add RAM
> memory. The system uses virtual memory for a limited
> number of tasks rather than RAM memory".
>
>
> Totals
> ---------
> Handles 8273
> Threads 381
> Processes 39
>
> Commit Charge (K)
> -----------------------------
> Total 256752
> Limit 1078660
> Peak 292836
>
> Physical Memory (K)
> -------------------------------
> Total 458096
> Available 127452
> System Cache 202348
>
> KernelMemory (K)
> -------------------------------
> Total 58808
> Paged 48964
> Nonpaged 9844
>
>
> "Gerry Cornell" wrote:
>
>> Dorothy
>>
>> Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the
>> Performance Tab. What is the Total, the Commit Charge
>> and the Peak?
>>
>> You may check on pagefile (virtual memory) usage with
>> Page File Monitor for XP:
>> http://www.dougknox.com/
>>
>> If you get anything much more than 50 mb virtual memory
>> usage for most users this means you need to add RAM
>> memory. The system uses virtual memory for a limited
>> number of tasks rather than RAM memory.
>>
>> Make sure you study the readme.txt file carefully to ensure
>> you get the utility to work as it should.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>>
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>
>> "dotbowels" <dotbowels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:AEB45E2F-6BC0-4F14-AE9D-4956408892BD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > My laptop only has 256 memory, would increasing to 512 memory speed
>> > things
>> > up? Anything else I can do? Appreciate help thanks Dorothy
>>
>>
>>


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