Re: msconfig

You can disregard System Idle as it is referring to the percentage of
CPU capacity not being used. Thus if all the processes are using 15 %
CPU System Idle will show 85%.

Video editing will use a lot of memory. What do you mean when you refer
to 1005? If you are referring to the number in the PID column this has
no signifance. A number is allocated by windows each time the computer
is restarted. Thus the number for a particular process will not be the
same next time you restart the computer. Exceptions are System Idle -PID
0 and System -PID 4. There may be other exceptions.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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qiman wrote:
Gerry,

Thank you. You have given me the information I unknowlingly needed.
I do need to better grasp all the info you sharde with me, which I
hope are online resources.
I have AMD 2.8 running on an a850e HP maxed out at 1 gb add on memory.
I hope to use video making software from Serif.My wife so kindly
purchased for me.

Back to the issue.
My immediate problem is answered by your last entry. Autoruns is
where I need to go first.
I have a huge proccesses list running on Task Manager and I thought
to limit startups but they seem to come right back if you use them
from programs.

I need to become more learned in hoe Windows works on this level and
any guidance would be appreciated.

I have tried to monitor Task manager and two things I have noted are
system idle at 98 to 985is one and another is when I attempt to use
video productionas in movie editing ( not even encoding) the Task
manager will show 1005.
Leads me to autorun as you suggest.
I will look for any other help you can give and will go to Autorun as
you suggest and start to keep better track of all my actions to see
the outcomes. Thank you very much, Richard

"Gerry" wrote:

Freeing up memory is the wrong way to look at what I think you are
seeking to achieve, better system performance. You need to either add
RAM memory or curtail excessive use of the pagefile. There are a
number of ways to proceed.

How much RAM memory do you have and what is your typical pagefile
usage?

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 can get more accurate information on pagefile usage using
pagefilemon, a small freeware utility.

Use page file monitor to observe what is the peak usage. Start it to
run immediately after start-up and look at the log. Pagefilemon takes
snapshots. You need to run it at the beginning of the session at then
run it again at intervals throughout the sessions. The log is
Pagefile log.txt. If you right click on the file in Windows Explorer
and select Send to, Desktop (Create Shortcut). The same applies to
XP_PageFileMon.exe.

A small utility to monitor pagefile usage:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm

Note that programs using undo features, particularly those associated
with graphics and photo editing, require large amounts of memory so
if you use this type of programme check these first observing how
the page usage increases when they start and whether the usage
decreases when you close the programme.

You can get clues as to what is generating peak memory demands but
this is not a precise science, more a matter of judgement.

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 the computer on 24/7?

I would be interested in seeing a Disk Defragmenter report. 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.

The last request is asked to get background information not because I
think you might need to run Disk Defragmenter! You may do but that is
another question.

When you have identified, which programmes are generating excessive
or untimely demands for memory you have the choice of modifying their
behavour or replacing them with an alternative. The first move
should be to see if you can change the programme so that it is
available on demand (when you need it) from just loading
automatically when you boot. Look in the programme setting to see
whether there are options. If that is not possible then use Autoruns
to disable it from starting when you boot. Autoruns is far more
suited to what you have in mind than msconfig. It also identies more
start up items than msconfig.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Autoruns.mspx

With Autoruns you can uncheck an item, which disables it from
starting, or you can can right click an item and then delete it. If
you uncheck you can recheck to re-enable the item. It is a much
safer approach than editing the Registry. Another useful feature of
the programme is that you can right click an item and select Search
Online to get information about the item selected.

Another change to be considered concerns automatic daily scanning by
your anti virus etc. Often these are timed to occur either when you
boot or shortly after. A change to another time may be beneficial.
Look at the settings in your anti-virus.

Often users are "sold" anti-virus and other security software that
offers protection at a high cost in terms of performance. Norton and
McAfee producted are well known for this downside. Perfectly adequate
freeware software is available without these adverse side effects.

Something else to watch. Too many Internet Explorer Add-ons.

When you have carried out a review of what is going on on your
computer, making appropriate changes, you may establish a need to
add more RAM. However, do not overlook that adding RAM may not
improve performance if something else like a low CPU speed is
holding the system back.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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qiman wrote:
would like to learn hoe to set to my parameters to free up memory
and speed.

I will need to know what is abso;utely needed and what can be
modified.

Any assets out there to help? thank you

As Leonard said you do not free up RAM


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