Hello

This happens quite often. Why?

It is on a spare computer, WIN XP SP3, 400MHz pention, 4 GB HD, 192 MB
ram (64 when installed).
However, cleanmgr seems to run for minutes now and then... stopping
the computer totally.

WBR
Sonnich

a 4 gigabyte hard drive may
be the problem and running
out of disk space may be a
regular issue for the pc.

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192 megabytes of memory/
ram may be the problem and
running out of memory may
be a regular issue for the pc.

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having insufficient resources
like those mention above makes
for a poorly performing pc with
xp installed on it.

if you upgrade the resources above
you will surely see an improvement
with system performance.


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"jodleren" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:fa79f8a3-5e5d-4778-bd42-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello
>
> This happens quite often. Why?
>
> It is on a spare computer, WIN XP SP3, 400MHz pention, 4 GB HD, 192 MB
> ram (64 when installed).
> However, cleanmgr seems to run for minutes now and then... stopping
> the computer totally.
>
> WBR
> Sonnich

Help! My computer is slow!
http://miekiemoes.blogspot.com/2008/...r-is-slow.html


jodleren wrote:
> Hello
>
> This happens quite often. Why?
>
> It is on a spare computer, WIN XP SP3, 400MHz pention, 4 GB HD, 192 MB
> ram (64 when installed).
> However, cleanmgr seems to run for minutes now and then... stopping
> the computer totally.
>
> WBR
> Sonnich

Sonnich

The amount of RAM is less than minimal for most users of Windows XP. 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?

Cleanmgr.exe is the Disk CleanUp utility. The first stage is to
calculate the saving of disk space by compressing older files. This
takes time on any computer.
You can disable the calculation:
http://samanathon.com/registry-hack-...n-calculation/


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Hope this helps.

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jodleren wrote:
> Hello
>
> This happens quite often. Why?
>
> It is on a spare computer, WIN XP SP3, 400MHz pention, 4 GB HD, 192 MB
> ram (64 when installed).
> However, cleanmgr seems to run for minutes now and then... stopping
> the computer totally.
>
> WBR
> Sonnich

In news:fa79f8a3-5e5d-4778-bd42-(E-Mail Removed),
jodleren <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:
> Hello
>
> This happens quite often. Why?
>
> It is on a spare computer, WIN XP SP3, 400MHz pention, 4 GB HD, 192 MB
> ram (64 when installed).
> However, cleanmgr seems to run for minutes now and then... stopping
> the computer totally.
>
> WBR
> Sonnich

Mainly because the specs for that PC are far from optimal for running XP.
cpu too slow @ 400 MHz, HD way too small, RAM seriously undersized and
probably a lot more.
There's nothing "wrong" specifically, but you're going to see some things
that can get real slow depending on a lot of other things. You could be
running out of or nearly out of hard drive space and useing an immense
pagefile, in which case you are likely maxing out your resources. I'm
surprised you aren't seeing hard drive full and out of resource error
messages; you've tweaked something pretty well or turned them off, I'd
guess<g>.
If you're letting it compact old files, that's one process that's slower
on any machine - and would really be slow for you. So setting it for not
compacting old files might be a big help. That might leave enough resources
to not completely stop other applications, but you'll probably never get rid
of the pauses and slow spots.

If you can't upgrade to another computer then a larger hard drive would be
the first thing for you to go after IMO. Be sure it's a 7200 or a 10,000
rpm drive; avoid the older 5400 rpm drives. 80 Gig to 360 Gig drives are
really low-cost right now.

HTH,

Twayne
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Before you use that advice though, consider the
ramifications of it being wrong or even dangerous;
how important IS that to you?
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newsgroup!

jodleren wrote:
> Hello
>
> This happens quite often. Why?
>
> It is on a spare computer, WIN XP SP3, 400MHz pention, 4 GB HD, 192 MB
> ram (64 when installed).
> However, cleanmgr seems to run for minutes now and then... stopping
> the computer totally.
>
> WBR
> Sonnich

Are you using an AV software which is scanning each file visited by cleanmgr ?
The simple act of accessing a file, can trigger off your AV software, which
wastes extra cycles. I used to have long delays on a machine running Kaspersky,
when using cleanmgr.

Paul

jodleren wrote:
> Hello
>
> This happens quite often. Why?
>
> It is on a spare computer, WIN XP SP3, 400MHz pention, 4 GB HD, 192 MB
> ram (64 when installed).

No offense, but you have absolutely no businees running Windows XP on a
machine with such specs. It may be possible, but it is most definitely
not recommended! CPU is too slow. Hard drive is definitely too small.
And there is not enough RAM. You have three bottlenecks right off the
bat!

No offense but you have absolutely no business making that kind of
statement.
MS says minimum requirements are: Processor 233Mhz--300 recommended.
Disk size--1.5 GByte available. Memory size 64Mb --128Mb recommended
Where does it state 'definitely not recommended'?.

"Daave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> jodleren wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> This happens quite often. Why?
>>
>> It is on a spare computer, WIN XP SP3, 400MHz pention, 4 GB HD, 192 MB
>> ram (64 when installed).
>
> No offense, but you have absolutely no businees running Windows XP on a
> machine with such specs. It may be possible, but it is most definitely not
> recommended! CPU is too slow. Hard drive is definitely too small. And
> there is not enough RAM. You have three bottlenecks right off the bat!
>