Lot's of my programs keep freezing up and "program not responding".
About 20% of them for some reason. Mostly they come back after several
seconds but some take up to 30 seconds or more and the odd one I have
to end program.

In the absence of any rational explanation I'm wondering if it could
be anything to do with having Windows XP (SP2) installed on C: but
installing all my programs to partition E:?

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maybe and maybe not.

If you e drive is a seperate hard drive and it is formatted differently than
your main drive or if its slower, then it would be one of the factors that
may be affecting your functionality. However, it is my guess that you may be
low on system resources. One example is if you have more than one active
antivirul turned on. Then each time you launch a program, it's being checked
by say, 2 anti virus checkers.... Or maybe you have lots of programs already
loaded into memory, then the cpu is being a little slow or maybe your virtual
memory is low as well. Possibly you have a number of spywares loaded as
well. And then it could also be issues with hardware, that may be
hampering your funtionality as well.

Do you get the same problems when you use safe mode instead...

Maybe a little tuning up would be helpful. have you tried a software like
ssytemmechanic? It has a lot of helpful options that would improve your pc's
performance....
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"XyZed" wrote:

> Lot's of my programs keep freezing up and "program not responding".
> About 20% of them for some reason. Mostly they come back after several
> seconds but some take up to 30 seconds or more and the odd one I have
> to end program.
>
> In the absence of any rational explanation I'm wondering if it could
> be anything to do with having Windows XP (SP2) installed on C: but
> installing all my programs to partition E:?
>
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XyZed wrote:

> Lot's of my programs keep freezing up and "program not responding".
> About 20% of them for some reason. Mostly they come back after several
> seconds but some take up to 30 seconds or more and the odd one I have
> to end program.
>
> In the absence of any rational explanation I'm wondering if it could
> be anything to do with having Windows XP (SP2) installed on C: but
> installing all my programs to partition E:?



No, that's highly unlikely to be the problem. Many people have programs
installed on different partitions without issues.

What anti-virus and anti-spyware applications do you run, and are they up-to
date?

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There is circumstantial evidence that on Thu, 3 Aug 2006 06:47:02
-0700, databaseben <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
_______________________________________________________

>› maybe and maybe not.
>›
>› If you e drive is a seperate hard drive and it is formatted differently than
>› your main drive or if its slower, then it would be one of the factors that
>› may be affecting your functionality. However, it is my guess that you may be
>› low on system resources. One example is if you have more than one active
>› antivirul turned on. Then each time you launch a program, it's being checked
>› by say, 2 anti virus checkers.... Or maybe you have lots of programs already
>› loaded into memory, then the cpu is being a little slow or maybe your virtual
>› memory is low as well. Possibly you have a number of spywares loaded as
>› well. And then it could also be issues with hardware, that may be
>› hampering your funtionality as well.
>›
>› Do you get the same problems when you use safe mode instead...
>›
>› Maybe a little tuning up would be helpful. have you tried a software like
>› ssytemmechanic? It has a lot of helpful options that would improve your pc's
>› performance....

Thanks for the reply (and databaseben too)

Here's what I have -

WIN XP home SP2
Pentium 4 3 Gz
2.5 Gz RAM

Here are the applications I have running -

Eudora (email minimized to sys tray)
WinPatrol
Zone Alarm
NOD32 virus checker (with everything except MS word doc scanner
disabled)
MSGTAG (email notification tagger)
1st clock (sys tray clock replacement and alarm util)

I used to use spybot search and destroy but it is now one of the
programs that won't run on my system. Despite uninstalling and
reinstalling it just won't work. It hangs while scanning for problems.

I recently tried using some disk catalogue utilities too and tried 4
different programs. All 4 wouldn't work properly either, often locking
up while scanning CD / DVD disks.

I can download a program and it just wont work, yet the program does
work OK on my laptop so I know it works on win xp sp2.

Despite these problems, about 80% of programs work fine, but 20%
either are unusable or suffer constan program not responding problems.
:-(

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In your response, there are a couple of lines in the beginning regarding
"circumstantial evidence...."

Do you know why this is notated?


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"XyZed" wrote:

> There is circumstantial evidence that on Thu, 3 Aug 2006 06:47:02
> -0700, databaseben <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> _______________________________________________________
>
> >› maybe and maybe not.
> >›
> >› If you e drive is a seperate hard drive and it is formatted differently than
> >› your main drive or if its slower, then it would be one of the factors that
> >› may be affecting your functionality. However, it is my guess that you may be
> >› low on system resources. One example is if you have more than one active
> >› antivirul turned on. Then each time you launch a program, it's being checked
> >› by say, 2 anti virus checkers.... Or maybe you have lots of programs already
> >› loaded into memory, then the cpu is being a little slow or maybe your virtual
> >› memory is low as well. Possibly you have a number of spywares loaded as
> >› well. And then it could also be issues with hardware, that may be
> >› hampering your funtionality as well.
> >›
> >› Do you get the same problems when you use safe mode instead...
> >›
> >› Maybe a little tuning up would be helpful. have you tried a software like
> >› ssytemmechanic? It has a lot of helpful options that would improve your pc's
> >› performance....
>
> Thanks for the reply (and databaseben too)
>
> Here's what I have -
>
> WIN XP home SP2
> Pentium 4 3 Gz
> 2.5 Gz RAM
>
> Here are the applications I have running -
>
> Eudora (email minimized to sys tray)
> WinPatrol
> Zone Alarm
> NOD32 virus checker (with everything except MS word doc scanner
> disabled)
> MSGTAG (email notification tagger)
> 1st clock (sys tray clock replacement and alarm util)
>
> I used to use spybot search and destroy but it is now one of the
> programs that won't run on my system. Despite uninstalling and
> reinstalling it just won't work. It hangs while scanning for problems.
>
> I recently tried using some disk catalogue utilities too and tried 4
> different programs. All 4 wouldn't work properly either, often locking
> up while scanning CD / DVD disks.
>
> I can download a program and it just wont work, yet the program does
> work OK on my laptop so I know it works on win xp sp2.
>
> Despite these problems, about 80% of programs work fine, but 20%
> either are unusable or suffer constan program not responding problems.
> :-(
>
> --
>
> Free washing machine help and advice.
>
> www.washerhelp.co.uk
>
> www.xyzed.co.uk/newsgroups/top-posting.html
>

There is circumstantial evidence that on Mon, 7 Aug 2006 07:12:01
-0700, databaseben <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
_______________________________________________________

>› In your response, there are a couple of lines in the beginning regarding
>› "circumstantial evidence...."
>›
>› Do you know why this is notated?

Sorry, I don't know what you mean. It's the introductory text to a
quoted message and been like that for about 5 years. I can't see (with
my newsreader - Agent) any difference (apart from choice of words)
between it and any other post. The only thing that IS different is the
underlining. Could you explain more what it looks like to you, and is
it on every one of my replies?

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You should be able to see the following lines generated from your replies:


There is circumstantial evidence that on Thu, 3 Aug 2006 06:47:02
-0700, databaseben <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
_______________________________________________________



It sounds like there is somekind of legalize monitoring of your
communications....Here in America, these choice of words are considered as a
premise of legal oversight....... And in my defense/responses, I would be
required to utilize a "disclaimer" - another premise of legal defense.






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"XyZed" wrote:

> There is circumstantial evidence that on Mon, 7 Aug 2006 07:12:01
> -0700, databaseben <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> _______________________________________________________
>
> >› In your response, there are a couple of lines in the beginning regarding
> >› "circumstantial evidence...."
> >›
> >› Do you know why this is notated?
>
> Sorry, I don't know what you mean. It's the introductory text to a
> quoted message and been like that for about 5 years. I can't see (with
> my newsreader - Agent) any difference (apart from choice of words)
> between it and any other post. The only thing that IS different is the
> underlining. Could you explain more what it looks like to you, and is
> it on every one of my replies?
>
> --
>
> Free washing machine help and advice.
>
> www.washerhelp.co.uk
>
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>

There is circumstantial evidence that on Tue, 8 Aug 2006 06:02:02
-0700, databaseben <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
_______________________________________________________

>› You should be able to see the following lines generated from your replies:
>›
>›
>› There is circumstantial evidence that on Thu, 3 Aug 2006 06:47:02
>› -0700, databaseben <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>› _______________________________________________________
>›
>›
>›
>› It sounds like there is somekind of legalize monitoring of your
>› communications....Here in America, these choice of words are considered as a
>› premise of legal oversight....... And in my defense/responses, I would be
>› required to utilize a "disclaimer" - another premise of legal defense.


It's my English sense of humour :-) As the headers of a post can be
forged, a post claiming to be from a person, is not guaranteed to be
really from them. It's just my tongue-in-cheek way of saying that the
evidence is circumstantial.

Instead of the normal, "on Tue, 8 Aug 2006 06:02:02 -0700, databaseben
wrote -" I just precede it with, "There is circumstantial evidence
that.."


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XyZed wrote:

> There is circumstantial evidence that on Mon, 7 Aug 2006 07:12:01
> -0700, databaseben <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> _______________________________________________________
>
>>> In your response, there are a couple of lines in the beginning
>>> regarding "circumstantial evidence...."
>>>
>>> Do you know why this is notated?
>
> Sorry, I don't know what you mean. It's the introductory text to a
> quoted message and been like that for about 5 years. I can't see (with
> my newsreader - Agent) any difference (apart from choice of words)
> between it and any other post. The only thing that IS different is the
> underlining. Could you explain more what it looks like to you, and is
> it on every one of my replies?


He doesn't understand that it's possible to customize that attribution
(introductory text) and that you've chosen to do so with the jocular phrase
"There is circumstantial evidence that..."

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