Re: PC is constantly churning

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

Hi Folks

Well, it DOES look as though the churning problem might have been vercome - as I mentioned earlier, I took a flook action: here's what I did .....

Did a 'Start, Control Panel, Scheduled Tasks'.

Though I didn't know why they were there or what exactly they did, I recognized two of the Tasks as being related to software I knew I had i.e.:-
Task "RegCure Program Check" (I have RegCure);
Task "Symantec Drmc" (I have Symantec's Norton SystemWorks).

For each Task, I did a right-click on 'Name' (of Task) then, on the drop-down list, chose 'Properties'. Then I clicked on the 'Settings' tab. In both cases, an item 'Stop the task if it runs for __ hours __ mins' had been set to a very high figure - from memory I think it was 72 hours. I changed these to "5 mins".

I tried things out this morning and, though there is still occasional activity, its nothing like as much as it has been.

SO, here's hoping!

Many thanks to Pete and Curt for their help (I have taken the precaution of keeping copies of their messages - just in case!!)

Cheers,
John
(alias 'I don't believe it!' Victor Meldrew)
- to reply, omit the "zy"

.