Re: Win XP Pro & Disk Thrashing


Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under the Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the
Peak? What are your pagefile settings?

Download Process Explorer.

For further information about Process Explorer see here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx

To ascertain which service is causing the problem select what is producing the high CPU usage, right click, select Properties, Services. Note there are the full names and some explanation of what each service does.

You will find further information on Services here:
http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12

To trace the particular Service involved you need to turn off each service in turn and then restore it noting what effect it has on CPU usage. however, you need to take care and watch what other Services are dependent on that service. When you click on the Dependencies tab allow it a little time to display the information.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Omicron wrote:
Hello Gerry.
Thanks for your reply.
No Third Party memory management is in use.
As noted in my original message, the pagefile is being used, released,
used and released on an almost continuous basis, even when zero
applications are running; hence the heart of my problem.
I'll download that utility as well.
Thanks again.
If you should think of anything else, please drop me a line.
Regards.


Gerry Cornell wrote:

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