Re: Constant Freezing - Please help

Here's the defrag report:
Volume IBM_PRELOAD (C:):
Volume size = 18,130 MB
Cluster size = 16 KB
Used space = 7,411 MB
Free space = 10,719 MB
Percent free space = 59 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 2 %
File fragmentation = 4 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 42,467
Average file size = 150 KB
Total fragmented files = 451
Total excess fragments = 2,924
Average fragments per file = 1.06

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 384 MB
Total fragments = 3

Directory fragmentation
Total directories = 4,766
Fragmented directories = 33
Excess directory fragments = 75

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Fragments File Size Most fragmented files
63 1,040 KB \WINNT\SECURITY\LOGS\WINLOGON.OLD
22 416 KB \WINNT\SECURITY\LOGS\WINLOGON.LOG
36 6,352 KB \WINNT\Installer\AD6C82.MSP
67 1,280 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DFFE04.TMP
42 752 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF8873.TMP
46 736 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF4314.TMP
68 1,552 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF55DB.TMP
140 3,344 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF8F09.TMP
91 1,824 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF41FB.TMP
44 832 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF941D.TMP
91 1,664 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DFEC97.TMP
77 1,792 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF1ED3.TMP
18 320 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF8284.TMP
124 2,832 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF38F.TMP
167 3,728 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DFCE04.TMP
60 1,136 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF7E44.TMP
58 1,184 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF591.TMP
165 3,472 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DFD53E.TMP
81 2,064 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DFECB1.TMP
22 544 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DFD28A.TMP
161 3,488 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF7C5D.TMP
78 1,888 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF5395.TMP
47 976 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF95FD.TMP
42 1,136 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF7368.TMP
24 432 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DF3139.TMP
47 880 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\Local
Settings\Temp\~DFB000.TMP
29 1,680 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\My Documents\My
Pictures\Grandma's birthday\VMI Portrait 79.JPG
24 1,936 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\My Documents\My
Pictures\Cocos y Locos\It's a double.JPG
88 1,920 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\My Documents\My
Pictures\Cocos y Locos\Backyard rainbow.JPG
54 2,400 KB \Documents and Settings\DEB\My Documents\My
Pictures\Dad's 80th\DSC00226.JPG



"DEBTHINKPAD" wrote:

Thx.
Deb

"DL" wrote:

Thinkpad A30 2 - 3 years old

"Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23ilyL0LRIHA.2376@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Deb

Have you resolved the problem with the Stop Error messages you were having
2 days ago? If yes what was the solution?

Is your computer dual booting i.e. Windows 2000 and Windows XP?

What is your Windows 2000 CD as it is described on the face of the CD?

What is your computer make and model? How old is it?

Have you made any hardware or software changes shortly before the
problem first arose? Memory perhaps?

How much RAM memory?

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?

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?

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.

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. Run Disk Defragmenter.

Try running HD Tune(freeware).

Download and run it and see what it turns up.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
and copy into a further message.

Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. You can also do a full
surface scan with HD Tune.

Dust inside the computer casing can cause overheating and result in this
type of error. Take the casing off and use an Air Duster to clean. Also
check that all fans are working.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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DEBTHINKPAD wrote:
My Win 2000 Pro system is freezing often, independent of application
and requiring power-off to escape the freeze. I'm unable to perform
my work, though thankfully succeeded in doing a backup and have run
virus and adware programs plus deleted internet temp files from
options tab. Have had slow performance before this (also experience
hung programs w/dll and other errors at shutdown) and system recently
added more VM. Have plenty of disk and defragged not long ago, but of
course when I restore from a freeze it needs to check disk for
consistency and I have to restore active desktop, so not sure if
that's building up ovrhead somewhere. Think I could shut down some
background programs at startup, but not confident how to do that w/o
creating problems unless I have very specific instructions. (For some
reason could not access from start/run/msconfig)

I'd really appreciate your help.





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