"Searcher7" wrote in message
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I posted a couple of days ago, but for some reason Google Groups
deleted it.
You appear to be replying to comments I made and also someone else's
comments from the thread, so I'll concentrate on replying to your
responses to my comments.
In Task Manager, while on the Processes tab, click the View menu
Select
Columns, put a check in the boxes for Virtual Memory Size and GDI
Objects, and click OK. You may find rather high Virtual Memory usage
for some apps (like Firefox) as well as for GDI Objects.... this will
tell you more about what is slowing it down that just looking at Mem
Usage.
But I wouldn't know what I'm looking at anyway.
That's why you are asking questions in the newsgroup, no? Enable those
columns, and when you have issues, post back with what processes show
highest usage in those columns, as well as CPU and Memory, and what the
numbers are, and someone here who *does* know what you are looking at
can help you.
...and what were the results of the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test (DFT)
on
both internal drives, that I mentioned
earlier?http://www.hitachigst.com/support/downloads/#DFT
I have a lot of drives and change whenever I re-install, but the lags
persists so I doubt it's a hard drive problem. Besides, I don't have a
set-up that allows me to create "self-booting media". (I disconnected
my "A" drive which was giving me problems).
You don't have an optical drive (CD, DVD)? Bootable media doesn't have
to be a floppy, most common now is bootable CD. The DFT page I linked
gives links to an ISO file to make a bootable CD, and links to
instructions.
You change hard drives whenever you reinstall, and from you comments
below, you reinstall regularly? Are you aware that both PATA and SATA
connectors on the drives and motherboard have a limit on how many times
they can be connected and disconnected without degrading?
I've learned that after an OS install staying as far away from
Microsoft and anything it wants to add has not just cause me less
problems, but has allowed me to avoid all searching, downloads and
learning curves. It's a lot easier to track down and correct problems
with your car than a Microsoft OS. That's why I reinstall regularly.
It's a lot faster and easier.
Maintenance and security related "fixes" are a pain. (But it's big
business).
No offense because I don't mean it that way, but that's all a good sign
of a user who doesn't really know what he's doing.... but if you are
trying to avoid all those "learning curves", you're not going to learn a
lot! ;-) Also, there's a difference between critical security
updates, and Microsoft's other "recommended" updates.... which I would
NOT recommend on any of the MS operating systems. In addition, on XP
and earlier, MS updates to device drivers should be avoided like a
plague.
I've learned that there are rarely step-by-step instructions toward
resolving these problems that work anyway, because everyone doesn't
have the same system. My next step is a different system with a lot
more ram.(Something I didn't need a decade ago). I really can't go
through the hassle of searching for and installing and figuring out
maintenance related apps that I shouldn't need anyway. If this is what
you do or is your business that's one thing, but I just want to be
able to turn on and use my pc without all the crap.(To whatever extent
that is possible).
Actually, step-by-step instructions work for many issues on most
systems, if they are complete and followed exactly. It really depends
on the issues involved though. I hear you about having to use
maintenance apps and learning about them, instead of just using your
machine to do what you want. In part, that's why MS has dumbed down the
system so much in Vista and Seven... so users can concentrate on doing
their work (and play) on their computer, rather than have to spend time
on maintenance and repair. The down side of the dumbing down is that
'power users" and tweakers, and more advanced users who want more
control have to jump through more hoops instead, to do what used to be
much easier in XP or 98.
--
Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+