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
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