Re: Are patches eating up my memory?

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Patches may be eating up your hard drive space on C, but not your RAM. How
much RAM does your system have? It's certainly possible to turn off
processes and services to gain performance - these are generally well known
and publicized for XP (google is your friend) but there's less information
on Vista (you don't say which). And it's pretty simple to move the paging
file to another drive too...right-click on My Computer, select Properties,
then root around in the advanced settings for the page file.

Sounds to me like the problem is PeoplePC...have you talked to them and
asked them about their performance issues?

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"Anna" <Anna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5B734164-D82E-4BBA-9B49-A2A55FDCA891@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've been having a problem where I have to reboot every few hours.
Granted
it's only when I'm online that I have to do this, I'm using PeoplePC
online
and it takes quite a bit of memory. A friend told me that I should go
into
task manager under processes tab and see if the number under peak commit
charge is higher than total physical memory. It was. So I did a little
research and what I came up with is that the commit charge can be higher
than
physical memory because it includes page filing. My total for commit
charge
is around a million K. My peak starts around 320,000 K, when it reaches a
million that's when my pc starts freezing up, programs not responding, I
have
to reboot. I'm wondering if my running processes has something to do with
this. I tried to get it as low as possible but don't really know which
ones
are safe to end. I did a file search to find out where all of these
things
are and a lot of them are service pack files, prefetch (don't know what
that
means are what it does), and operating system. I have five svchost.exe
and
when I tried ending one of them it screwed up my pc and had to reboot.
There
are two rundll.exe....I'd like to know what the heck that is. My friend
told
me to change page file to what my computer recommends. I did but it seems
to
make no difference. I have a lot of unused memory (mostly on D drive),
why
can't I make my paging file as large as I want? Since I've downloaded all
the patches and service packs, it has taken up quite a bit of space on my
C
drive, not to mention adding things to my running processes. I never had
this problem of rebooting before. Not until I replaced my internal drive
and
started using PeoplePC. Could it be the isp or the brand of drive
(Western
Digital, was originally Maxtor)? I never really paid attention to the
processes tab in task manager so I don't know much about it. Any input
would
be appreciated.

**I also wanted to point out that various graphics intensive games I have
played on pc have stated that I should only have a couple of running
processes and nothing in systray. How is this possible? They actually
said
to go in and end every process but when I did that it was disaster.


.

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