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help! memory cleaner needed...
Hi all,
I am using Excel 2003 for some project. I am having 2GB C drive harddisk space. After a while, the Excel begins to be extremely slow in copy and paste... It takes about half an hour to copy and paste just a few cells... I've consulted people. It seems a memory problem. But I cannot close my windows and kill the processes, because I am running long-running (overnight) jobs... I cannot reboot either. Is there a way to clean the memory and let Excel 2003 clipboard function properly without rebooting or killing my 4 long-running processes? Thanks! |
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help! memory cleaner needed...
2 gb of harddisk space
is very low and an issue that will crash your system. ----------------- after you clear out some harddisk space you probably need to set the virtual memory to custom size as well. perhaps you should double check the v.m. and ensure that it is not oversized and taking up your free space. db·´¯`·...¸)))º "LunaMoon" wrote in message ... Hi all, I am using Excel 2003 for some project. I am having 2GB C drive harddisk space. After a while, the Excel begins to be extremely slow in copy and paste... It takes about half an hour to copy and paste just a few cells... I've consulted people. It seems a memory problem. But I cannot close my windows and kill the processes, because I am running long-running (overnight) jobs... I cannot reboot either. Is there a way to clean the memory and let Excel 2003 clipboard function properly without rebooting or killing my 4 long-running processes? Thanks! |
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help! memory cleaner needed...
A registry cleaner will not help and most likely would cause more problems
if you use a cleaner. As to killing one or more processes, if you are absolutely certain these process are the problem you can use Windows Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del), click on the 'Processes' tab, highlight the offending process and then click the 'End Process' button. However a safer way would be to use a tool named 'Process Explorer', it displays more information including the directory path location and a 'Search Online' function so you can do some investigation before killing a process. To find out more about Process and Svchost.exe entries using Process Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...sExplorer.mspx Once you have Process Explorer installed and running: In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower Pane' options. (This will provide some of the detailed info you may need) Expand the Process tree until 'Services.exe' has been expanded. Next move the mouse cursor over the process that you are interested in. (Example: Svchost.exe process or other process) You now see a Pop Up showing the path/location on the hard drive for the process. Svchost entries may need to be expanded by clicking on the + sign to the left of Svchost entry. (You should now see a pop up with a list of services associated with the Svchost.exe you selected) Double click on the Svchost.exe process or any other process that you are interested in. The 'Properties' Window should now be displayed with numerous tabs available. If you highlight a process and right click you can 'Search Online' to find out more detail on that process. You can also right click on a process and select 'Kill' to kill that process. JS "LunaMoon" wrote in message ... Hi all, I am using Excel 2003 for some project. I am having 2GB C drive harddisk space. After a while, the Excel begins to be extremely slow in copy and paste... It takes about half an hour to copy and paste just a few cells... I've consulted people. It seems a memory problem. But I cannot close my windows and kill the processes, because I am running long-running (overnight) jobs... I cannot reboot either. Is there a way to clean the memory and let Excel 2003 clipboard function properly without rebooting or killing my 4 long-running processes? Thanks! |
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help! memory cleaner needed...
"LunaMoon" wrote in message ... Hi all, I am using Excel 2003 for some project. I am having 2GB C drive harddisk space. After a while, the Excel begins to be extremely slow in copy and paste... It takes about half an hour to copy and paste just a few cells... I've consulted people. It seems a memory problem. But I cannot close my windows and kill the processes, because I am running long-running (overnight) jobs... I cannot reboot either. Is there a way to clean the memory and let Excel 2003 clipboard function properly without rebooting or killing my 4 long-running processes? Thanks! Before you look for a cure you should determine the cause of your problem. Start the exercise by launching the Task Manager. Click the Performance tab and keep an eye on the various numbers while your Excel task grinds away. Can you see a correlation between the PC speed and the Task Manager numbers as they change? |
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help! memory cleaner needed...
Hey folks,
Everything else works fine, except the copy and paste of Excel 2003, which is extremely slow and often hang for 30 minutes or so. I am sure it's because of memory problem after doing so many Excel copy&paste. I use Excel all the day and I open 10 Excel processes. But I couldn't shut them down. And I cannot reboot, because I have been waiting long time for the results... I have tried deleting many files but still I am lack of harddisk space. There are other people's files on my disk which I cannot delete, for wierd reason. I am logged on as an administrator and other colleague also log on this computer as administrators. And I couldn't delete their no-longer- used files after they pass the computer to me(they left the group and I am inheriting the computer). Each of the past users left some files on the disk which I couldn't delete. That's why I don't have space now. Any help on the memory front, on the Excel front, and on the harddisk file deleting front? Thanks On Aug 12, 5:46*pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" wrote: "LunaMoon" wrote in message ... Hi all, I am using Excel 2003 for some project. I am having 2GB C drive harddisk space. After a while, the Excel begins to be extremely slow in copy and paste... It takes about half an hour to copy and paste just a few cells... I've consulted people. It seems a memory problem. But I cannot close my windows and kill the processes, because I am running long-running (overnight) jobs... I cannot reboot either. Is there a way to clean the memory and let Excel 2003 clipboard function properly without rebooting or killing my 4 long-running processes? Thanks! Before you look for a cure you should determine the cause of your problem. Start the exercise by launching the Task Manager. Click the Performance tab and keep an eye on the various numbers while your Excel task grinds away. Can you see a correlation between the PC speed and the Task Manager numbers as they change? |
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For those files from other users that you want to delete:
Access is Denied Error Message XP Pro: (should work with Media Center) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881 Shared folder access: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/sdperms.htm Also read this MS KB article about how to take ownership of files. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421 Understanding and Applying NTFS Permission in Windows XP Professional http://www.winxpsolution.com/ApplyingNTFSXPPro.aspx For the low disk space issue: First use Windows 'Disk Cleanup' to create more space on your C: drive. Description of the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312 Next: Empty the Recycle Bin. You can also free up more disk space by reducing the number of 'System Restore' points: Select Start/Control Panel/System, then in the System Properties window click on the System Restore tab. Next select the drive letter where Windows is installed (usually C, Then click on the Setting button Now in the Drive Settings window move the Disk space usage slider to the left to reduce the amount of drive space System Restore points will use. This will remove some of the older restore points and free up some space. Disable Hibernation and delete hiberfil.sys file (If you have it enabled): http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/1...-xp-and-vista/ and: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...hibernate.mspx Next if you still need more space: Remove the files used to uninstall updates to Windows These folders and associated files in these folders are safe to remove, however once deleted you will no longer be able to un-install a patch or update that was associated with the deleted folder/files. I would keep the most recent set (last two months just in case) of folders and delete the older updates. As a safety net I burned these folders to a CD before deleting them. These files are located in the Windows folder and have folder names like $NtUninstallKBXXXXXX$. They are hidden folders so enable viewing of hidden files in Windows Explorer. Warning: One folder you should not delete is: $hf_mig$ Also See the following web pages on this issue: http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm Finally - You can reduce the size of the Internet Explorer Disk Cache: How and Why to Clear Your Cache: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...learcache.mspx Just follow the instructs but instead of increasing the size (as stated in the article) decrease it. If you have more than one partition or drive then: How to Change the Default Location of Mail and News Folders: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/175037 Change the Default Location of the My Documents Folder (Example: move it to the D drive) See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310147 Also: http://www.techsupportalert.com/how_..._documents.htm How to move the Spool folder in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q308666 JS "LunaMoon" wrote in message ... Hey folks, Everything else works fine, except the copy and paste of Excel 2003, which is extremely slow and often hang for 30 minutes or so. I am sure it's because of memory problem after doing so many Excel copy&paste. I use Excel all the day and I open 10 Excel processes. But I couldn't shut them down. And I cannot reboot, because I have been waiting long time for the results... I have tried deleting many files but still I am lack of harddisk space. There are other people's files on my disk which I cannot delete, for wierd reason. I am logged on as an administrator and other colleague also log on this computer as administrators. And I couldn't delete their no-longer- used files after they pass the computer to me(they left the group and I am inheriting the computer). Each of the past users left some files on the disk which I couldn't delete. That's why I don't have space now. Any help on the memory front, on the Excel front, and on the harddisk file deleting front? Thanks On Aug 12, 5:46 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" wrote: "LunaMoon" wrote in message ... Hi all, I am using Excel 2003 for some project. I am having 2GB C drive harddisk space. After a while, the Excel begins to be extremely slow in copy and paste... It takes about half an hour to copy and paste just a few cells... I've consulted people. It seems a memory problem. But I cannot close my windows and kill the processes, because I am running long-running (overnight) jobs... I cannot reboot either. Is there a way to clean the memory and let Excel 2003 clipboard function properly without rebooting or killing my 4 long-running processes? Thanks! Before you look for a cure you should determine the cause of your problem. Start the exercise by launching the Task Manager. Click the Performance tab and keep an eye on the various numbers while your Excel task grinds away. Can you see a correlation between the PC speed and the Task Manager numbers as they change? |
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help! memory cleaner needed...
"LunaMoon" wrote in message ... Hey folks, Everything else works fine, except the copy and paste of Excel 2003, which is extremely slow and often hang for 30 minutes or so. I am sure it's because of memory problem after doing so many Excel copy&paste. I use Excel all the day and I open 10 Excel processes. But I couldn't shut them down. And I cannot reboot, because I have been waiting long time for the results... I have tried deleting many files but still I am lack of harddisk space. There are other people's files on my disk which I cannot delete, for wierd reason. =============snippage I would suggest that at the next shutdown opportunity, you yank the drive and clone it to a much larger one. Where I am, half-terabyte drives are around $83 now. HTH -pk |
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help! memory cleaner needed...
Hi all,
I am using Excel 2003 for some project. I am having 2GB C drive harddisk space. Does that mean you only have 2 GB of free space? If so, you have run out of hard drive room and need a larger hard drive. For 2 Gig to be a reasonable amount of room, it would have to be less than a 20 Gig hard drive total, and that is not enough to run any programs like Excel that have to chug away for many hours at a time. Your description sounds an awful lot like it's hard drive space. If I'm right, you can not fix it unless you get a larger hard drive installed. After a while, the Excel begins to be extremely slow in copy and paste... It takes about half an hour to copy and paste just a few cells... I've consulted people. It seems a memory problem. But I cannot close my windows and kill the processes, because I am running long-running (overnight) jobs... I cannot reboot either. Is there a way to clean the memory and let Excel 2003 clipboard function properly without rebooting or killing my 4 long-running processes? Thanks! |
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"LunaMoon" wrote in message
... Hey folks, Everything else works fine, except the copy and paste of Excel 2003, which is extremely slow and often hang for 30 minutes or so. I am sure it's because of memory problem after doing so many Excel copy&paste. I use Excel all the day and I open 10 Excel processes. But I couldn't shut them down. And I cannot reboot, because I have been waiting long time for the results... I have tried deleting many files but still I am lack of harddisk space. There are other people's files on my disk which I cannot delete, for wierd reason. =============snippage I would suggest that at the next shutdown opportunity, you yank the drive and clone it to a much larger one. Where I am, half-terabyte drives are around $83 now. HTH -pk That's the only way out, IMO; there just is no way there will be enough recoverable space on that drive from his description to make the effort even worth trying. I suspect it's get more disk drive or no go. Those half hour pastes would probably turn into less thana minute with enough room for the contents on the drive and in RAM. He hasn't mentioned, and no one asked about RAM, disk size, or anything else so most of this has been guess by the seat of people's pants, never a good solution to anything. But, even with that info, I'm still betting the answer will be more hard drive, plus maybe more memory too to get it working properly. HTH |
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"LunaMoon" wrote in message ... Hey folks, Everything else works fine, except the copy and paste of Excel 2003, which is extremely slow and often hang for 30 minutes or so. big snip Are you copying from one Excel document to another, or from some other source to the Excel instances? How large are the Excel files? Have you run Disk Cleanup to remove unneccessary garbage from the disk? Consider removing old System Restore points - these eat up a lot of space. How much memory (RAM) does your PC have? What other major applications are running when you're doing this? |
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*Bonjour JS * !
One more : You can move the %systemroot%\system32\dllcache (~600GB) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222193 HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon SFCDllCacheDir specifies the location of the Dllcache folder -- Regards, Jean-François |
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based on information contained in the multiple cross postings across a
couple of dozen groups. Your computer is sadly neglected, having be passed from user to user, never having old users files removed etc. etc. And then you start 10 instances?!?? of Excel and copy paste between them and then wonder why eventually it fails to copy paste? If I was to correct this PC, I would make sure I had good backups of the data files then wipe the drive reinstall the operating system and Office. LunaMoon wrote: Hey folks, Everything else works fine, except the copy and paste of Excel 2003, which is extremely slow and often hang for 30 minutes or so. I am sure it's because of memory problem after doing so many Excel copy&paste. I use Excel all the day and I open 10 Excel processes. But I couldn't shut them down. And I cannot reboot, because I have been waiting long time for the results... I have tried deleting many files but still I am lack of harddisk space. There are other people's files on my disk which I cannot delete, for wierd reason. I am logged on as an administrator and other colleague also log on this computer as administrators. And I couldn't delete their no-longer- used files after they pass the computer to me(they left the group and I am inheriting the computer). Each of the past users left some files on the disk which I couldn't delete. That's why I don't have space now. Any help on the memory front, on the Excel front, and on the harddisk file deleting front? Thanks On Aug 12, 5:46 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" wrote: "LunaMoon" wrote in message ... Hi all, I am using Excel 2003 for some project. I am having 2GB C drive harddisk space. After a while, the Excel begins to be extremely slow in copy and paste... It takes about half an hour to copy and paste just a few cells... I've consulted people. It seems a memory problem. But I cannot close my windows and kill the processes, because I am running long-running (overnight) jobs... I cannot reboot either. Is there a way to clean the memory and let Excel 2003 clipboard function properly without rebooting or killing my 4 long-running processes? Thanks! Before you look for a cure you should determine the cause of your problem. Start the exercise by launching the Task Manager. Click the Performance tab and keep an eye on the various numbers while your Excel task grinds away. Can you see a correlation between the PC speed and the Task Manager numbers as they change? |
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How much RAM? Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? Does the spreadsheet have multiple links to other spreadsheets? -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LunaMoon wrote: Hey folks, Everything else works fine, except the copy and paste of Excel 2003, which is extremely slow and often hang for 30 minutes or so. I am sure it's because of memory problem after doing so many Excel copy&paste. I use Excel all the day and I open 10 Excel processes. But I couldn't shut them down. And I cannot reboot, because I have been waiting long time for the results... I have tried deleting many files but still I am lack of harddisk space. There are other people's files on my disk which I cannot delete, for wierd reason. I am logged on as an administrator and other colleague also log on this computer as administrators. And I couldn't delete their no-longer- used files after they pass the computer to me(they left the group and I am inheriting the computer). Each of the past users left some files on the disk which I couldn't delete. That's why I don't have space now. Any help on the memory front, on the Excel front, and on the harddisk file deleting front? Thanks On Aug 12, 5:46 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" wrote: "LunaMoon" wrote in message ... Hi all, I am using Excel 2003 for some project. I am having 2GB C drive harddisk space. After a while, the Excel begins to be extremely slow in copy and paste... It takes about half an hour to copy and paste just a few cells... I've consulted people. It seems a memory problem. But I cannot close my windows and kill the processes, because I am running long-running (overnight) jobs... I cannot reboot either. Is there a way to clean the memory and let Excel 2003 clipboard function properly without rebooting or killing my 4 long-running processes? Thanks! Before you look for a cure you should determine the cause of your problem. Start the exercise by launching the Task Manager. Click the Performance tab and keep an eye on the various numbers while your Excel task grinds away. Can you see a correlation between the PC speed and the Task Manager numbers as they change? |
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I've posted a screen shot here. Please take a look and give me some
advice. This headache really kills my productivity. http://img166.imageshack.us/my.php?i...6072409gv2.jpg On Aug 13, 12:32*pm, "Gerry" wrote: How much RAM? Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? Does the spreadsheet have multiple links to other spreadsheets? -- Hope *this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LunaMoon wrote: Hey folks, Everything else works fine, except the copy and paste of Excel 2003, which is extremely slow and often hang for 30 minutes or so. I am sure it's because of memory problem after doing so many Excel copy&paste. I use Excel all the day and I open 10 Excel processes. But I couldn't shut them down. And I cannot reboot, because I have been waiting long time for the results... I have tried deleting many files but still I am lack of harddisk space. There are other people's files on my disk which I cannot delete, for wierd reason. I am logged on as an administrator and other colleague also log on this computer as administrators. And I couldn't delete their no-longer- used files after they pass the computer to me(they left the group and I am inheriting the computer). Each of the past users left some files on the disk which I couldn't delete. That's why I don't have space now. Any help on the memory front, on the Excel front, and on the harddisk file deleting front? Thanks On Aug 12, 5:46 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" wrote: "LunaMoon" wrote in message .... Hi all, I am using Excel 2003 for some project. I am having 2GB C drive harddisk space. After a while, the Excel begins to be extremely slow in copy and paste... It takes about half an hour to copy and paste just a few cells... I've consulted people. It seems a memory problem. But I cannot close my windows and kill the processes, because I am running long-running (overnight) jobs... I cannot reboot either. Is there a way to clean the memory and let Excel 2003 clipboard function properly without rebooting or killing my 4 long-running processes? Thanks! Before you look for a cure you should determine the cause of your problem. Start the exercise by launching the Task Manager. Click the Performance tab and keep an eye on the various numbers while your Excel task grinds away. Can you see a correlation between the PC speed and the Task Manager numbers as they change? |
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I don't see any dllcache folder, where is it?
On Aug 13, 6:44*am, JF JF@- wrote: * *Bonjour JS * ! One more : You can move the %systemroot%\system32\dllcache (~600GB)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222193 HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon SFCDllCacheDir specifies the location of the Dllcache folder -- Regards, Jean-François |
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