Which brings a slight problem that has developed for me. Ctr, Alt, Del brings up a window of only program listings; the top of the window is missing to the extent I have no tabs to choose. I cannot see task manager on the Accessories list, either, nor via Control Panel. Any ideas?
Joseph Harris www.smilepoetryweekly.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:51 PM Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] E-mail and computer slowdown > Damn! Gotta do something about this mouse. Sorry again for the inadvertent > double-click send. > > Since he is running XP, one thing you can do is to start Task Manager, > switch to the Processes tab, and click on the CPU column header to sort the > entries by percent. This will bubble the highest CPU-use processes to the > top. Under most normal circumstances, the system idle process should be at > the top (unless you're doing something such as graphics transformations, > programming IDE build and compile, etc.), since Windows is a message-based, > event-driven system and the machine ordinarily spends the vast majority of > the time sitting in an idle loop listening for you to do something to > generate a message or fire an event handler. > > There should be very few processes showing significant CPU use at the top of > that list. In any event, note which processes seem to constitute the largest > users of CPU time, and investigate those first. If there do not seem to be > any culprits at the time when the system is clearly sluggish online, I would > think that that would point to a connection issue, either bandwidth > limitations/usage or other external factor. > > Cheers, > Scott > > . > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "trusz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:26 PM > Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] E-mail and computer slowdown > > > > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 09:03 pm, you wrote: > >> I am not confident enough to do a registry clean. I have heard so many > >> stories about what can happen if you mess up the registry . . . > >> > >> I increased his IE cache - what other cache would I increase? > >> > >> What can be done about the users on his node logging on? Would this > >> happen with DSL too? > >> > >> Thanks for the reply, > >> Riva > >> > > If it's not a spyware issue then chances are you may be looking at either > > a > > networking issue (the slowdown from more people logged on that Michael > > mentioned) or he may have an application running which is leaking memory > > resources. When he notices the slowdown, have him reboot. If he speeds > > back > > up that's a good argument for some app on his machine, If he reboots and > > it's > > later in the day when more cable users are on, then it's something in his > > isp. Might be user load, might just be a flaky piece of equipment which > > gets > > worse with user load. At that point he has to put in a ticket with his > > isp. > > > > For the application problem, you really want him to shut down apps using > > lots > > of memory one at a time and see when the system speeds back up. Then load > > up > > everything except the possible problem app and see if the system runs ok. > > Sometimes you have to do this a few times to find the actual problem. It's > > painstaking, time consuming work. > > > > And of course it could be just accumulated flakiness in the os. All those > > added and removed programs take a toll. Left over dll's , program > > fragments > > etc can slow things down. If the os isn't too customized you might simply > > try > > to reinstall or repair it. > > > > drew ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ Send Your Posts To: [email protected] To change subscription settings, add a password or view the web interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
