You need to go in to the task manager and lookto see how much process power skype is taking. I cant rememberthe collumn number but start hitting control+insert+1 on the number row, and go up through the columns until you hit x percent. Take care. Sarah Alawami MSN: chellist at hotmail.com skype: marrie1 Website; www.marrie.org To check out my podcast go to http://feeds.feedburner.com/funfilled For information on the list where you can discuss the podcast check out http://tffp.marrie.org/mailman/listinfo/tffpdiscussionlist_tffp.marrie.org Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disk ?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Maria Chapman" <[email protected]> To: "skype english list" <skypeenglish at emissives.com> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] help with windows 2000 and skype Hi. so how do I find out how much cpu skype is using? and if it's skype pm can I disable that? everything else runs beautifully even for the peple its just skype we seem to be having trouble with. kind regards Maria Australia Skype id bubbygirl1972 msn bubbygirl1972 at gmail.com Wives? this one's for you check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindwivesclub or send a blank email to: blindwivesclub-subscribe at yahoogroups.com Doug Lee wrote: > Look in the Task Manager, Processes tab, and see how much of the CPU > skype.exe is using. That should tell you if the problem is actually > Skype, SkypePM (the Skype Plugin Manager), or something else. I may > get corrected here, but I think SkypePM can take some considerable CPU > time right after it is loaded, but that this doesn't last long. > > I don't know why Skype itself would chew up so much CPU, or how going > to an older version would help enough to worry about. > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:40:31PM -0800, Sarah wrote: > Try updating windows 2000 if you can and if that's a no go, downgrade to > skype 2.5. > > Take care. > Sarah Alawami > Check out my music page at > http://music.marrie.org > Thanks and have a wonderful day. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Maria Chapman" <bubbygirl1972 at gmail.com> > To: "skype english list" <skypeenglish at emissives.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:23 PM > Subject: [Skypeenglish] help with windows 2000 and skype > > > > Maria from Australia > skype: bubbygirl1972 > msn & email: bubbygirl1972 at gmail.com > groups: > if interested send emails to > pray-4-1another at googlegroups.com > blindwivesclub-subscribe at yahoogroups.com > shelter-from-the-storm-subscribe at yahoogroups.com > > Hi. my husband was given a computer with windows 2000 on it. It seems > to run fine until we make or receive a call on skype, people can hear us > but we often can't hear them. I am using the latest version of skype. > Quitting jaws doesn't always help. if we go in to the performance tab > the cpu usage is often at 89 percent. Would an older version of skype > maybe run better and take up less cpu usage? Would this improve the > situation? > > thanks > > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the > latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > To access tutorials and other goodies go to > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > Skypeenglish at emissives.com > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the > latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > To access tutorials and other goodies go to > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > Skypeenglish at emissives.com > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list Skypeenglish at emissives.com http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
