Re: FASTER PERFORMANCE

Hello again, Gerry

I'm currently running Firefox/2.0.0.11.

Here are the Virtual Memory top 6:
aawservice.exe 45,524
firefox.exe 45,312
explorer.exe 35,252
svchost.exe 30, 212
searchindexer.exe 21, 944
MsMpEng.exe 20,572
Weather.exe 16,324

I plan to add more spyware software promptly. All I have is Yahoo Anti Spy,
Ad Aware and Windows Defender. I also have AVG 7.5 as my antivirus.

I am currently looking into what you told me involving everything else.
I'll get back to you.

Cheers, Gerry.

Pikey



"Gerry" wrote:

Pikey

The information provided by you speaks volumes.

The Task Manager Commit Charge figures indicate that almost certainly
your system is making extensive use of the pagefile. Whether this is
because of the programmmes you are running, the way you are running the
programmes or that you just need to add more RAM is what we need to
ascertain. Both the Total and the Peak are greater than the installed.
You can install pagefilemon to get figures of actual pagefile usage but
this is not really necessary given that the figures you have provided
make it so abundantly clear.

Leaving the computer on 24/7 means that programmes with memory leaks do
not release memory after being closed. This causes pagefile usage to
ever increase until at worst the system grinds to a halt.

Firefox has known memory leaks and the beta version 3 recently released
still is giving problems on this count. What version is it that you have
installed.

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?

Your system is bad fragmented and you need to increase your free disk to
a minimum of 15% 10.4gb and preferably to 20% 13.9gb. Approaching 15% is
needed to run Disk Defragmenter.

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to
Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also
select Start, All Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp,
More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System
Restore point.

It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore
on your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700
mb. Right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System
Restore. Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this
time find the slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and
exit. When you get to the Settings screen click on Apply and OK and
exit.

Another default setting which could be wasteful is that for temporary
internet files, especially if you do not store offline copies on disk.
The default allocation is 3% of drive. Depending on your attitude to
offline copies you could reduce this to 1% or 2%. In Internet Explorer
select Tools, Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files,
Settings to make the change. At the same time look at the number of days
history is held.

The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. Change to
5%, which should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor
on your Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and
move the slider from 10% to 5%. However, try to avoid letting it get
too full as if it is full and you delete a file by mistake it will
bypass the Recycle Bin and be gone for ever.

If your drive is formatted as NTFS another potential gain arises with
your operating system on your C drive. In the Windows Directory of
your C partition you will have some Uninstall folders in your Windows
folder typically: $NtServicePackUninstall$ and $NtUninstallKB282010$
etc. These files may be compressed or not compressed. If compressed
the text of the folder name appears in blue characters. If not
compressed you can compress them. Right click on each folder and
select Properties, General, Advanced and check the box before Compress
contents to save Disk Space. On the General Tab you can see the amount
gained by deducting the size on disk from the size. Folder
compression is only an option on a NTFS formatted drive / partition.

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System
Information, Tools, Dr Watson and verify that the box before "Append to
existing log" is NOT checked. This means the next time the log is
written it will overwrite rather than add to the existing file.

The default maximum size setting for Event Viewer logs is too large.
Reset the maximum for each log from 512 kb to 128 kb and set it to
overwrite.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Restart your computer and you should now be able to run Disk
Defragmenter. Please advise how much free disk space you have.

Please provide details of your anti-virus, anti-spyware arangements.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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