Re: it takes about 5 minutes to switch directories
- From: "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 03:19:28 -0000
Joshua
You are introducing significant new issues.
Which suggestions I made in my last post have you implemented. What
has been the affect on free disk space?
Right click on the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select
Properties, Automatic Updates. Uncheck the box before Automatic
(Recommended) and check the box before Notify me but do not
automatically download or install. Click on Apply and OK and close all
windows. Restart your computer. This will give you more control over
the update process. Given that you have limited memory, processing and
hard drive capacity this would seem sensible.
In future to update the procedure becomes select Start, Help and
Support, Keep your computer up to date with Windows Update and double
click Custom. The system then checks on you and then your system to
see what you need. At the end of this stage under Select by Type will
be the number of Updates available by category. Click on Critical and
it will list the details of those available. Check the option for each
and every one and then click on Install. You will then be offered the
option to Save to Disk or to Run. Select Run. The process is then
fully automated until it says hopefully Successful or Finished. You
then restart the machine if asked to do so.
Now to deal with past update failures we need more information.
Select, Start, Help and Support, Keep your Windows up- to-date with
Windows Update, Review your Update History and click on the Failed
Icon in the Status Column. What does it say?
What are your anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall arrangements?
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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JoshuaM wrote:
i'm not sure of this because the windows installer keeps shutting
down and becoming inaccessable even if on automatic and started. it
says some link is broken, and also administrative priviledges i
granted to the user account i use stopped, and also i cannot login
to
administration even with the correct password. It just freezes
while
loading admin to safe mode. Not only that, but i cannot make the
windows installer work by unregistering, and cannot change
privledges. when i tried to change some aspecs of windows installer
it says access denied all of the sudden and some service called
dllhost.exe is running and it apparently isn't the virus replica,
and
there are like 10 svchost.exe files running.
"Gerry Cornell" wrote:
Joshua
It would seem likely that your system is using the pagefile because
of the limited RAM memory available. Use the utility pagefilemon to
check this out. Photoshop will trigger a high pagefile usage,
especially any editing. You are handling large files. Not sure
about
the other programs but you can find out which do using pagefilemon.
What is your CPU? Right click your My Computer icon on your Desktop
and select Properties to get this information.
What is your anti-virus programme?
You have insufficient free disk space on your main hard drive.
Increasing this space would help.
It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System
Restore on your C drive 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.
On your system System Restore should not be monitoring your D
drive.
Right click on your My Computer icon , select Properties, System
Restore, place the cursor on D drive, click on Settings and click
on
the box before Turn off System Restore on this drive. Click on OK,
Apply, OK and exit. Restart the computer for the change to take
effect. This will increase the free space on your D drive by about
9
gb.
Another default setting which I would change is that for temporary
internet files. The default allocation is 3% of drive. Depending on
your attitude to offline copies you could reduce this to 1%%. 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. On
your
drive 5% 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%.
For your C partition select Start, All Programs, Accessories,
System
Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all
but
the latest System Restore point? Restore points can be quite large.
You should use Disk CleanUp regularly to Empty your Recycle Bin and
Remove Temporary Internet Files. You will need to run Disk CleanUp
twice. Once for your C drive and once for your D drive. Whenever
you
remove redundant files you should always run Disk Defragmenter by
selecting Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk
Defragmenter. Again do it on both drives ignoring the "You do not
need...." message. If the green area on your C drive is fragmented
say.
Also in Internet Explorer select Tools, Internet Options, scroll
down
the Settings and under Security locate Empty Temporary Internet
Files folder when browser is closed. Check the box before and click
on OK.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
JoshuaM wrote:well i only know the processor is Celeron equivalent to Pentium
II.
Frequently used programs that require me to look in different
directories are Photoshop 5.5, yahoo messenger (the latest
version),
smart ftp, and the latest windows media player
of the four options the first option is chosen. let windows choose
what is best.
Zone Alarm tends to be my anti-spyware software which runs a scan
every so often.
My main HD is 12.1 GB and has 1.65 free
my secondary drive is 74.5 GB with 15.7 GB free. One thing I
should
note is this seems to have all started after reactivating some
windows services which i don't remember which services they are
"Gerry Cornell" wrote:
Joshua
256 mb RAM is minimal for most users, Please several of your most
frequently used programs.
What is the CPU?
You might monitor use of the pagefile.
A small utility to monitor pagefile usage:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm
Right click on your My Computer icon on your Desktop. Select
Properties, Advanced, Performance Settings, Visual Effect. Which
of
the four options is checked?
What are your anti-spyware arrangements?
How large is your hard disk and how much free disk space?
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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