Re: Cannot END APPLICATIONS

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On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:03:02 +0100, "Pegasus [MVP]"
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About virus scanning: I suggest you get a second opinion by doing a free
system scan via www.antivirus.com. Look for "House Call".

About memory leaks: The Task Manager will tell you. I had a similar issue
the other day where the Paging File Usage (visible under the Performance
tab) climbed from an initial 300 MBytes to 800 or 900 MBytes, causing a
dramatic drop in performance. In my case the problem was caused by
repeatedly putting Windows to sleep and waking it up again.

About killing a task: What happens when you use this command from the
Command Prompt: TaskKill /f /im NameOfApp.exe?

Didn't know that this command existed, but I'm printing out this
message for reference.



Also: Some virus scanners are very intrusive and both NAV and McAfee score a
frequent mention in this newsgroup. I would physically disconnect the
machine from the Internet, then use msconfig.exe to disable all virus
scanner-related tasks and services. Since your problem occurs after 3-4
hours of idle time, this is an easy test to perform. If you have other
third-party programs that are resident (e.g. certain background backup
programs) then you should disable them too.

Funny thing is, the problem seems to have disappeared on its own. I
left the machine on all night and this morning, there were no
problems. I'm going to repeat this test.

Having said that, I will definitely take your suggestion for a second
opinion.

.

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