See if you have accumulated some malware http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315/en-us
P.S. Your brother is probably incorrect about XP leaking memory. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ross Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [users] Is it the Java environment? > > Hi, > > So I am otherwise very appreciative of your product, > especially since it is free. It is in most ways has all the > features I want and they are easy to find. The main > complaint I have had is the complexity by which one adds page > numbers -- two steps are involved, first adding a footer and > then adding the page number. I wish there were one single > option under "Insert" > that said "Add Page Numbers", and then had a little menu for it. > > Anyway, that's not what I am writing about. I work on a Dell > Inspiron 1200, with an Intel Celeron processor and 512 mb of > RAM. I use Windows XP. I don't know how useful that > information is to you. > > Of late, something utterly terrible starts happening. The > computer starts "thinking" (the little green light turns on > or flashes, and something is loading internally). When this > happens, OpenOffice shows up as "not responding". Invariably > it returns to the land of the living. Before, this took only > a little while to happen. Now it is taking longer and > longer, and is happening more frequently. Sometimes when I > am typing in Writer, brief little blips happen, such that > what I have typed registers later (it writes it all out > slowly, or adds it when it comes back). Other times, it gets > started "thinking" and only comes back a minute or two later. > Only one has it actually crashed. > > This would happen in Mozilla, but for much shorter periods, > and anyway, it's gone away now. > > I don't know what the problem is. I figured that parts of > the program were in different places on my hard drive and the > program had to go an access them, so I defragmented the hard > drive. Nothing. My brother told me that XP will use a bit > of RAM, then "mark" it as used (i.e., in use), and not use it > again. He said therefore that I need to restart my computer > often. This seems like a possible answer. I don't turn my > computer off, and Java is continually using RAM (I think?). > I guess these problems don't happen as much right when I turn > on my computer. I'm not sure. > > Anyway, I wanted to tell you about this. It's driving me > absolutely up the wall, and I have a masters thesis to write. > > Thanks for listening. > > Ross W. Martin > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
