Re: FASTER PERFORMANCE

I could have sworn I uploaded a reply.

I deleted Weather.exe and Windows Desktop Search. However, when I open
Outlook 2007 it asks to reinstall it. I won't give up my Firefox. I love it
too much.

I currently have nearly 12GB of Free Space, with more free space on the way.

Should I do a disk defragmentation? Will that help at all?

What else should be done. I think I did everything I should do. :)

Thanks!




"Gerry" wrote:

Pikey

You seem to have some memory which Daave has identied, except Firefox is
also problematic regarding memory leaks. You need to decide which to
keep and make sure you shut down your computer after use.

How much free disk space do you have now?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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pikespeak wrote:
BTW, Gerry, I was only able to move the cursor to 1031MB for the
System Restore.

I only have 3-4GB of free space, but that is about to change
significantly. I'm currently deleting old files.

Cheers

"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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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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pikespeak wrote:
Hi Gerry,

Sorry for the late reply. Party party.

Let me see, under Commit Charge:

Total: 861408
Limit: 1258108
Peak: 895756

Sometimes, I leave my computer on for days at a time. Is that not a
good idea?

Here is what the Disk Fragmenter gave me:
Volume HP_PAVILION (C:)
Volume size = 69.27 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 65.60 GB
Free space = 3.67 GB
Percent free space = 5 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 27 %
File fragmentation = 43 %
Free space fragmentation = 11 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 97,353
Average file size = 868 KB
Total fragmented files = 17,816
Total excess fragments = 158,229
Average fragments per file = 2.62

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 756 MB
Total fragments = 1

Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 6,102
Fragmented folders = 410
Excess folder fragments = 3,013

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 110 MB
MFT record count = 104,407
Percent MFT in use = 92 %
Total MFT fragments = 4

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Fragments File Size Most fragmented files
16,654 1.46 GB \Program
Files\eMule\Incoming\RoboCop.3.1993.DVDRip.XviD.AC3.[Eng.PtBr]-CST.avi
6,085 1.03 GB \Documents and
Settings\Owner\Desktop\P\Bback Aud 4-PProductions.wmv
1,476 785 MB \Program Files\eMule\Temp\005.part
1,057 20 MB \Program Files\Common Files\Wise
Installation Wizard\WISDED53B0BB67C4244AE6AD6FD3C28D1EF_7_0_2_6.MSI
787 50 MB \Documents and Settings\Owner\My
Documents\My Music\Beyonce Knowles Feat Sugarland -
Irreplaceable.mpg 739 5 MB \Documents and
Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp\dd_netfx20MSI37BA.txt
378 11 MB \Documents and
Settings\Owner\Desktop\VS\CBS_Promo_Commercial_11-26-07_logo.avi
376 273 MB \Documents and
Settings\Owner\Desktop\P\Laid In San Juan.wmv
305 22 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP135\A0016692.exe
285 18 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP145\A0017432.exe
274 17 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP130\A0016459.msi
267 1 MB \WINDOWS\I386
262 20 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP157\A0018016.msi
259 17 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP158\A0018487.rbf
257 17 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP158\A0018466.rbf
254 16 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP158\A0018581.rbf
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP113\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP112\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP100\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP99\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP98\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP97\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP96\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP95\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP94\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP93\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP92\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP91\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP90\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
246 15 MB \System Volume
Information\_restore{6CD01810-EFB9-4AF0-A405-DE07EB8CD51D}\RP89\snapshot\_REGISTRY_MACHINE_SOFTWARE
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BTW, forgive me, I don't know what memory optimisers are? What
should I do about that?

Oh, I also notice that I have to clean out my hard-drive. I'm doing
that as I speak. I only have 3-5 GB left, but the computer is
still slow whether I have 3GB or 10GB, or so it seems. Firefox
really uses a lot of space. It's 207,000k of CPU usage. Also
there are 48 processes running. Most I have no idea what they are,
lol.


Thank you, Gerry.

Pikey



"Gerry" wrote:

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?

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.

Any memory optimisers installed?

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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