Karen:
If she has
lots of processes on the background, the computer can get overloaded. Lots of Internet
downloads will install data mining utilities that run on the background and
place a heavy load on the CPU, if you have enough of them.
You can see
what is running by pressing <CTRL><ALT><DEL> and then select Task
List and then processes and then you will see everything that is running on the
CPU. Most any thing that the owner is SYSTEM is probably OK, you will have to
figure the others one at a time; you may have to edit your start-up directory
to prevent some programs from loading (run MSCONFIG for this). You can also try
Lava soft Ad-Ware (free) software to delete all this parasite programs, I run
this utility once a week and it has eliminated a lot of problems as it deletes
the programs and corrects the registry as well.
Javier,
Javier Valencia, PE
President
Valencia
Technology Group, L.L.C.
14315 S.
Twilight Ln, Suite #14
Olathe, Kansas
66962-4578
Office
(913)829-0888
Fax
(913)649-2904
Cell
(913)915-3137
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printer or hardware problem?
While at same client with the ODBC problem (not a good
day) had a strange printing problem. A program does a
cursor and prints a report one at a time by client (RBWin
6.5++). The report can ONLY be printed to her local printer
because we get a memory overflow when printing to the
networked printer (traced to an Okidata not being totally
compatible with a JetDirect card). Anyway, printing to her
local printer has been working beautifully for months.
Yesterday she got a memory overflow problem on that local
printer after printing just one report. We put a similar
printer on her local port, and got a memory overflow on
that printer too. We did a complete cold boot, made sure
no other programs were open.
Then we took that local printer and attached it locally to a
laptop on the network, and it works just fine, so it isn't
the printer I assume. So some detective work here -- what
could be wrong that we could check for? The client uses
her workstation for Internet access and is always
downloading and installing little utilities, like new screen
savers and a date/time calendar on the task bar.
Would appreciate any clues...
Karen
