Re: Slow Computer Response:

On Jan 8, 10:08 am, "Gerry" <ge...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Robert

You need to increase your RAM from 256 mb to at least 512 mb. It is
obvious from the Commit Charges figures that you system is reliant for
some of your activities on the pagefile. Accessing the pagefile is
slower than RAM and this will mean a less responsive computer. I would
also double or even quadruple the maximum for the pagefile from 384 mb
as you have plenty of free disk space.

To advise on adding memory we need to know more about your computer. You
need to get the right type. What isyour computer make and model. How
old is it?

This freeware programme is excellent for getting information about
your computer:Everest Home Edition (freeware)http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

Tip: To copy select Report, Quick Report, Plain Text, highlight
required text, right click and select copy. However, whilst this is
fine for posting small amounts of information into newsgroup messages
longer reports will irritate other newsgroup subscribers.

In Everest expand Motherboard, Chipset and post the details for each
Memory slot.

Some advice on cCleanerhttp://www.ccleaner.com/ccdownload.asphttp://www.ccleaner.com/

With any cleaner you need to proceed with caution. To be safe you
should create a restore point before using cCleaner. cCleaner also
offers backup before removal.

When using cCleaner think twice before checking Autocomplete Form
History under Internet Explorer. You do get a warning but this one has
irritating consequences. You may need to restore your system's
recollection of passwords after use so keep a record off computer so
that they can easily be re-entered.

Leave the Scan for Issues option alone.

A tip for Disk CleanUp. Select Start, All Programs, accessories, System
Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the
latest System Restore point. This facility is not available with
cCleaner.

You should be able to gather more information from Task Manager. With
the Processes tab open select View, Select, Columns and check the boxes
before Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory size. What are the figures
for the 6 processes using the largest amounts?

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in
the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No
Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in
a previous boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Robert wrote:
On Jan 8, 7:50 am, Robert <magine...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 7, 11:13 am, "Gerry" <ge...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Robert

How much RAM memory?

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

What is your CPU processor speed?

Do you leave your computer on 24/7?

Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as
it is more informative.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hello Gerry,

I appreciate you trying to help. I was able to bring my system back
to normal yesterday or so I thought and everything seemed to be fine
when I turned it off, but today when I logged on it had the same
exact problem as it did yesterday e.g. dragging/sluggish and slow
response. I noticed this especially on eBay. In passing, I ran
Spybot, A-Squared and AVG yesterday and they found nothing.

In response to your questions:

How much RAM memory?
256MB of RAM

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

Total = 433616 (although the numbers keep changing)
Limit = 631568
Peak = 439012

What is your CPU processor speed? Pentium IV 1.80Ghz (not sure if
this is what you mean)

Do you leave your computer on 24/7? No, I don't, I shut it off after
I'm done using it.

This is the Analyze report from Disk Defragmenter:

Volume (C:)
Volume size = 149 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 19.62 GB
Free space = 129 GB
Percent free space = 86 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 15 %
File fragmentation = 30 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 179,066
Average file size = 196 KB
Total fragmented files = 9,733
Total excess fragments = 53,095
Average fragments per file = 1.29

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 384 MB
Total fragments = 1

Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 6,851
Fragmented folders = 218
Excess folder fragments = 1,592

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 199 MB
MFT record count = 186,283
Percent MFT in use = 91 %
Total MFT fragments = 4

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Fragments File Size Most fragmented files
557 36 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1232\A0199111.exe
556 36 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1232\A0199985.exe
556 36 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1217\A0195424.rbf
369 23 MB \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SOFTWARE
344 536 MB \Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars
Jedi Knight Jedi Academy\GameData\base\assets0.pk3
338 1 KB \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM.LOG
333 101 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1237\A0201838.msi
299 19 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1232\A0199978.exe
299 19 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1232\A0199104.exe
299 19 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1217\A0195431.rbf
294 21 MB \Documents and Settings\Robert Donnelly
\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\CPE5QS5Y
\get_video[2]
278 17 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1242\A0204430.exe
244 19 MB \Documents and Settings\Robert Donnelly
\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
\Content.IE5\2456KZN8\get_video[1]
228 23 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1270\snapshot
\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
219 30 MB \Documents and Settings\Robert Donnelly
\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\3EZQ366E
\avg75free_516a1225[1].exe
215 14 MB \Documents and Settings\Robert Donnelly
\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\3EZQ366E
\get_video[7]
215 101 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1222\A0196739.msi
196 101 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1223\A0197847.msi
194 101 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1221\A0196735.msi
191 103 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1236\A0201330.msi
183 101 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1235\A0201027.msi
181 13 MB \Documents and Settings\Robert Donnelly
\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\BSEIMF7N
\get_video[5]
169 13 MB \Documents and Settings\Robert Donnelly
\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\L573ECWG
\get_video[4]
162 12 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1240\A0203454.rbf
151 10 MB \Documents and Settings\Robert Donnelly
\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\2AC8KX1X
\milfload[1].wmv
151 11 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1240\A0203475.rbf
147 11 MB \System Volume Information
\_restore{31414675-6CBE-4639-8F67-8C2E395D7683}\RP1258\snapshot
\_REGISTRY_USER_NTUSER_S-1-5-21-1426590395-953129233-1774555873-1007
138 11 MB \Documents and Settings\Robert Donnelly
\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\P6RQ48RN
\get_video[1]
131 8 MB \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

I would appreciate it if you could give me any insight as to what may
be going on and what I can do to bring the system back to where it
was. The odd thing is that some pages load as before like my home
page but others seem to take forever e.g. clicking on an eBay item.
This has never happened before which is why I'm concerned.

Robert- Hide quoted text -

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This what I've done since the last post:

I've run Spybot, A-Squared, and AVG all of which found nothing.

I've run Disk Cleaner and Defrag (I have CCleaner but there are just
too many choices and don't know which to pick and not to pick)

I've re-booted (turned off completely) the system and it still acts
the same. Hotmail takes over a full minute to load and then didn't
even load the full page yet my MSN home page loads fine as before with
no waiting but just about everything else I try to do just hangs as if
there is a virus or corrupted file.

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Hi Gerry,

You sure have given me allot of information, I'm not totally computer
illiterate but at the same time there is much I don't understand so
please bear with me. I do apologize for the previous long response but
I thought that is what you requested?

In response to your suggestion; how do I increase my pagefile?

To advise on adding memory we need to know more about your computer.
You
need to get the right type. What is your computer make and model. How
old is it?

I have a 2002 Dell Dimension 8200 Pentium IV CPU 1.80 Ghz, 1.79Ghz,
256 MB of RAM with Service Pak2. I recently upgraded my hardrive to a
Seagate 160GB Hard Drive, and replaced my old CD-ROM with a LG DVD/RW
Drive.

I downloaded Everest and I don't know if I'm doing this right. I
expanded the Motherboard >Chipset and here are the results for the
Memory Slots:

Dram Slot#1 128MB (PC800 RDRAM)
Dram Slot#2 128MB (PC800 RDRAM)

The 6 figures in Task Manager using the largest amounts are as
follows:

Mem usage Peak
Mem Usage VM Size

iexplore.exe - 31,076k 50,808k 40,452k
iexplore.exe - 25,892k 49,680k 41,596k
WINDWORD.EXE 29,780k 63,504k 49,928k
explorer.exe 8,448k 25,172k 17,052k
Msnmsgr.exe 6,644k
20,516k 14,628k
Svchost 6,756k 17,076k 13,652k
ImageX 3,316k 19,520k 9,948k


These warning and errors occurred on 1-7-2008.

WARNING: Windows saved registry while an application or service was
still using the registry during logoff. The memory used by the user's
registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is
no longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try
configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or
NetworkService account.



ERROR: (previous error) Fault Bucket 02050800
0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20 Bucket:
0008: 30 32 30 35 30 38 30 30 02050800
0010: 0d 0a ..

ERROR: (previous error) Hanging application ImageX.exe version
1.0.0.1, hang module hungapp,version 0.0.0.0, hang address
0x00000000.

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 48 61 6e 67 ion Hang
0010: 20 20 49 6d 61 67 65 58 ImageX

ERROR: 2008-01-07 15:47:33,750 D8WPC311 [001496:001508]ERROR 000
AVG7.AM service module run failed: Error 0x80040154

ERROR: Fault Bucket 551330672
0000: 42 75 63 6b 65 74 3a 20 Bucket:
0008: 35 35 31 33 33 30 36 37 55133067
0010: 32 0d 0a 2..

ERROR: (previous error)Hanging application iexplore.exe, version
7.0.6000.16574, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hung address
0x00000000 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 48 61 6e 67 ion Hang
0010: 20 20 69 65 78 70 6c 6f iexplo



Robert
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