Win XP hanging when I go to "My Computer"

[Susan Trott]

Our XP workstation running SP 2 has started slowing significantly since the
last update. Today it hangs when we go to My Computer, but it doesn't when I
launch other software. Last week it started having difficulty with 51% memory
usage and I was unable to determine what was taking up the memory.
We have 4GB memory on the system, running a 500GB OS drive on a P4 Duo Core
2 system. This workstation serves as our peer-to-peer file server and has
three data drives all 500 GB as well as an outboard 500GB Maxtor drive for
backups. We have had a number of problems with this machine - including hard
drive suddenly failing for no reason. Could all this be related? Thanks in
advance for any advice provided.

 

[Allan]

Our XP workstation running SP 2 has started slowing significantly since
the
last update. Today it hangs when we go to My Computer, but it doesn't when
I
launch other software. Last week it started having difficulty with 51%
memory
usage and I was unable to determine what was taking up the memory.
We have 4GB memory on the system, running a 500GB OS drive on a P4 Duo
Core
2 system. This workstation serves as our peer-to-peer file server and has
three data drives all 500 GB as well as an outboard 500GB Maxtor drive for
backups. We have had a number of problems with this machine - including
hard
drive suddenly failing for no reason. Could all this be related? Thanks in
advance for any advice provided.

Try running hardware diagnostics programs.
http://www.tufftest.com/ (free/no cost version is available)