That's a fine tool, and has been helpful. Somebody else recommended www.tune-up.com; and my tests of that have been very favorable. It gave me a whale of a lot of visibility into the system, and fixed a whole bunch of things. Especially favorable, it seems to have fixed the actual problem, although I don't know specifically just what was causing it. So I'm a happy camper with this tool; thanks for pointing it out.
I had one tiny disappointment with it; it was going so great that I actually hoped it might fix whatever causes a couple of specific apps on my system to exit during their startup, very ungracefully with a simple "... has generated errors and will be closed...", even after uninstalling and reinstalling them. No dice there, but then that would have been beyond the scope of the program anyway. Steve Hendrix In a message dated 2006-01-26 02:46:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This might turn up something: > http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html > > ---Phil > > Hac> I've been watching Windows TaskMgr while using 99SE SP6 under W2K for > the > Hac> past several days. I notice that CPU usage goes to 100% essentially any > time that > Hac> Protel hsa a crosshair cursor (moving parts, routing traces, etc.). > > Hac> I have also noticed that the CPU usage creeps up over several hours. > There's > Hac> a red graph that seems to be some sort of baseline system usage, and a > green > Hac> line that seems to be application usage. It's the red line that seems > to creep > Hac> upward. It's almost like a memory leak, only for CPU cycles. This has > only > Hac> been happening for the past couple of weeks, and the baseline leak > doesn't seem > Hac> to be related to Protel, but I can't find anything else. Just did a > very > Hac> thorough virus scan, that doesn't seem to be it. I had installed an HP > printer > Hac> driver around the time I first noticed this, and have also recently > upgraded > Hac> (sidegraded?) W2K to SP3 and then SP4. > > Hac> Any thoughts? > > Hac> Steve Hendrix > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
