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jodleren said:
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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