Re: 2 gigs of memory-- doing nothing

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I really appreciate all the answers, but I don't feel I've gotten anywhere.

I've run Spybot and GMER--nothing there. PC Doctor doesn't run
automatically, so is not part of the picture. Norton may slow things down,
but it didn't disable my 5-yr-old Pentium 3. And even if Norton and all those
mysterious startup processes were slowing things down, wouldn't that show up
as consumed memory resources in Task Manager? Is there some other parameter
in Task Manager that would be more revealing?

All I know is that I have about half a computer here. I can't run more than
four or five plain vanilla applications here. I'm talking things like Office,
IE, Outlook, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Quickbooks, etc.

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:28:05 -0800, Mr. Coffee
<MrCoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

PC Doctor came packaged on my machine, a Lenovo Thinkpad T-61. It tests all
the hardware and appears to be legit. I haven't installed any snake oil,
unless you count Norton.


I count both PC Doctor and Norton anything as snake oil. I would try
running without them to see if that improves your situation.


The Thinkpad does have a ton of stuff that runs at
startup.


You should also look very closely at each to those to see what it is,
why it's there, what the impact on performance is, and whether or not
you need it.


This is why I'm confused. It appears that I have plenty of memory, but the
apps don't seem to use it or perhaps don't have access to it.



No, that's not the problem.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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