XP pasuses for a few secunds every 15 to 20..

[AlanB]

Just like my title..

My system running XP home pauses for a few seconds every 15 to 20 seconds.

The mouse moves and net work down loads continue but there is no response to
mouse clicks. Then it try's to do all the clicks I did when the system was
in this paused state.

This does not happen in Windows 2000 advanced server or Red Hat 8.0.

I have run all the virus software with the latest definitions.

I have run several registry repair programs.

I have removed SP1 (Reinstalled SP1)

Trying to reinstall Outlook Express and IE 6 but the installer says a
previous install was interrupted and must be finished.

Alan

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Alan,

Just a thought, but check properties of the drive and see if the indexing
service is enabled.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"AlanB" > wrote in message
.com...
> Just like my title..
>
> My system running XP home pauses for a few seconds every 15 to 20
seconds.
>
> The mouse moves and net work down loads continue but there is no response
to
> mouse clicks. Then it try's to do all the clicks I did when the system
was
> in this paused state.
>
> This does not happen in Windows 2000 advanced server or Red Hat 8.0.
>
> I have run all the virus software with the latest definitions.
>
> I have run several registry repair programs.
>
> I have removed SP1 (Reinstalled SP1)
>
> Trying to reinstall Outlook Express and IE 6 but the installer says a
> previous install was interrupted and must be finished.
>
> Alan
>
>

[Gord Dibben]

Alan

One more thought. Do you have MS Office installed?

You could be coming up against the FindFast Indexer feature. To disable
FindFast see this these KB articles.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;158705 (Office97)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;199787 (Office2000)

Gord Dibben Excel MVP - XL97 SR2 & XL2002

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 08:32:06 -0400, "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers" >
wrote:

>Hi Alan,
>
>Just a thought, but check properties of the drive and see if the indexing
>service is enabled.