Re: Slow Start-up (I know this question has been asked before)

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And you John



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Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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john wrote:
Gerry,

As I indicated, when this holiday deal slows down, I'll get you all
the info you need to help me. I really appreciate your help.

Have a nice Christmas, Gerry

John

Norton is not necessarily the right choice for you. RAM is not the
only factor you need to consider when seeking to improve performance.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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john wrote:
Hi Gerry,

I'll have to get back with you on the remaining items. I'm off to
my sisters for Christmas. I can tell you I spoke to Norton & they
said 1-2 minutes for start-up for the Norton application is normal,
so that would account for a big part of the slowness. Also, he
suggested I add more memory. I only have 768 RAM. He suggested 1-
2 GIGs.

john


"Gerry" wrote:

John

For six processes you need to provide:

Image Name Peak Mem Usage
VM Size

Explorer
46,072 23,784

Provide the details for the six highest scoring processes as
illustrated.

That is all I need.


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Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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socks wrote:
796K

Okay, from Processes, I get PID=3584;CPU=98;Memory usage=88912
K;Memory Delta;248;VM size=77740K;CPU Time=3:24 seconds.

John

How much RAM?

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?

You omitted to check the box before Virtual Memory size. I also
asked you to provide the Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory
size for each of the six processes using the largest amounts?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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john wrote:
"Gerry" wrote:

And the rest of the picture John?

In task mgr, under performance, commit charge total is 402800,
limit is 1918744 & peak is 478928.

I checked the boxes for peak memory usage & virtual memory size.
I could only find 4 processes: CPU usage, 98;memory usage,
29848K;peak memory usage, 77804K.

The rest will come later.

John

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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john wrote:
Hi Gerry:

Some answers to your questions:

I don't leave the computer on 24/7

My RAM has 768 MB

Processor speed, 2.73 GHz

In device mgr, no yellow icons.

Thanks, John

John

What is your CPU processor speed?

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.

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?

Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing
in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the
last boot. No Information Reports or Duplicates please.
Indicate which also appear in a previous boot.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control
Panel, Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When
researching the meaning of the error, information regarding
Event ID, Source and Description are important.

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer
and double click on the error you want to copy. In the
window, which appears is a button resembling two pages.
Click the button and close Event Viewer.Now start your
message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message.
Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.

Are there any yellow question marks in Device Manager? Right
click on the My Computer icon on your Desktop and select
Properties, Hardware,Device Manager. If yes what is the
Device Error code?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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john wrote:
Hello,

I'm at my wits end. My start-up is now about 4 minutes
long. Msconfig only has 2 items checked under start-up:
ccAPP for Norton & Cft.mon. A dell hardware tech checked
my computer & disabled the prefetch file, cleaned out a lot
of $ temp files & installed CCleaner. After his work, it
seemed like the computer took longer to boot up. The tech
had me call fee based software support & the tech there had
me boot up in safe mode & it booted faster. He told me one
or my applications may be conflicting with one another. He
couldn't go any further with me unless I paid $129 for
fixing the problem.

I know there have been other postes regarding start-up
issues, but I keep my computer well maintained, defrag
regularly, scan disk, run anti software, etc. If anyone has
an idea what's going on here, I would sure appreciate it.

Would I benefit from doing a system restore back to a couple
of months back? Of course, I would lose what the hardware
tech did.

One other odd thing which may or may not be related. When I
hybernate my system & try to ascess my home page at a later
time, it takes quite awhile for the home page to come up.
Once it comes up, the computer works fast.

Respectfully,

John


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