There is circumstantial evidence that on Thu, 3 Aug 2006 06:47:02
› maybe and maybe not.
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› 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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