Hey! I'm wondering if one of you tech whizzes can give me a clue as to what's going on with my 'puter. It won't let me open Word anymore. Most of the time it hangs up and I have to reboot to do anything at all. Only one time did I get a message saying I didn't have enough memory to open it. I've still got over 5 Gig of hard drive space left and I've got 128 M of RAM. When I pull up my System Performance it says I've got 54% of my resources free. Is this normal? Any idea what the problem is?
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SailAweigh - Apr 25, 2005 5:57:42 pm PDT #2595 of 10003
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dcp - Apr 25, 2005 6:12:21 pm PDT #2596 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
54% seems pretty low for just after a re-boot. Do you know what other programs you have running that are using up your resources? You can use Process Explorer to find out. [link]
SailAweigh - Apr 25, 2005 6:27:48 pm PDT #2597 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Downloaded the process explorer, but I don't really know what I'm looking for. Any hints as to what all the gobbledy-gook means? It says that system idle is using about 95% of the CPU? Does that make sense?
evil jimi - Apr 25, 2005 6:33:18 pm PDT #2598 of 10003
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Nope, That's way too high. My XP box is jumping between 0-8% and that's with Azureus, ICQ, MuM, InCD, WordWeb, AsusProbe, and Opera running.
Strike that, I misread the post. What OS are you using, SailAweigh?
dcp - Apr 25, 2005 6:35:45 pm PDT #2599 of 10003
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I just did a quick test, launching Word used 5% of my system resources, but opening a relatively small document briefly required 51%.
Hil R. - Apr 25, 2005 6:35:55 pm PDT #2600 of 10003
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SailAweigh, I was getting some stuff like that when there was some spyware on my computer. Have you tried running SpyBot and AdAware to see if they catch anything?
dcp - Apr 25, 2005 6:41:56 pm PDT #2601 of 10003
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The number in the "CPU" column in the "system idle" row is the percentage you have to spare. Higher is better.
Each line in the display that shows a number in the CPU column is a program that is using CPU cycles.
SailAweigh - Apr 25, 2005 6:42:25 pm PDT #2602 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Haven't run AdAware for a week or more. Might have picked something up. I think I'll try that.
SailAweigh - Apr 25, 2005 6:43:06 pm PDT #2603 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
"system idle" row is the percentage you have to spare
Then I should have plenty to spare, but it sure doesn't act like it.
ETA: jimi, I use Windows ME.
dcp - Apr 25, 2005 7:01:57 pm PDT #2604 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Windows' "System Performance" figure is based on more than just CPU use, but I don't know the details.
I can help translate some of the "gobbledy-gook" in Process Explorer if you like, but that's probably best done with IM.