{Not responding}

[micky]

I often get {Not responding} on the top line of my screen, for
Firefox, Eudroa, and even Agent. It goes away by iteself, but not
that quickly. (I wait about 10 seconds and then go to Agent, which
rarely gets the message. Sometimes I go back and look, or try to, and
it's still there)

I'm using XP Pro SP3, with a 2.66 MHz processor and 3G RAM.

Is there something I'm doing to cause this, something I could do to
better get rid of it?

Thanks.

 

[Paul]

I often get {Not responding} on the top line of my screen, for
Firefox, Eudroa, and even Agent. It goes away by iteself, but not
that quickly. (I wait about 10 seconds and then go to Agent, which
rarely gets the message. Sometimes I go back and look, or try to, and
it's still there)

I'm using XP Pro SP3, with a 2.66 MHz processor and 3G RAM.

Is there something I'm doing to cause this, something I could do to
better get rid of it?

Thanks.

Well, you know its not normal. I don't get a "not responding"
when I use Firefox. And I've had as many as 70 Firefox windows
open, and it still worked OK.

You'd have to think about all the adventures your OS has been
on. What kind of problems have you had in the past ? Malware ?
Networking problems ? Have you ever had any serious problems
with your hard drive ? It takes a bit of time, for a bad sector
to time out, and that might contribute to a lack of response.

The converse of malware, is your AV software. In many ways,
the AV software can be just as bad as the malware it protects
you against. Try Googling the name of your AV application,
and see if anyone else experiences "Not Responding" when
using it.

Paul

 

[VanguardLH]

I often get {Not responding} on the top line of my screen, for
Firefox, Eudroa, and even Agent. It goes away by iteself, but not
that quickly. (I wait about 10 seconds and then go to Agent, which
rarely gets the message. Sometimes I go back and look, or try to, and
it's still there)

I'm using XP Pro SP3, with a 2.66 MHz processor and 3G RAM.

And, in Task Manager, what process is up the most CPU usage at the time?

Since the apps you mention are network-capable apps, what happens when
you disable your anti-virus, firewall, or other 3rd party security apps?

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Well, you know its not normal. I don't get a "not responding"
when I use Firefox. And I've had as many as 70 Firefox windows
open, and it still worked OK.

Actually, it is quite normal. If the OP were running Windows 7, then I
could suggest that he open Resource Monitor and he can see what's stuck
and where it's stuck (i.e. processor, memory, disk, network, etc.). But
in XP, you can only really check for processor utilization through Task
Manager. Process Explorer helps a bit more, but not that much, Resource
Monitor is the best.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Yousuf Khan]

I often get {Not responding} on the top line of my screen, for
Firefox, Eudroa, and even Agent. It goes away by iteself, but not
that quickly. (I wait about 10 seconds and then go to Agent, which
rarely gets the message. Sometimes I go back and look, or try to, and
it's still there)

I'm using XP Pro SP3, with a 2.66 MHz processor and 3G RAM.

Is there something I'm doing to cause this, something I could do to
better get rid of it?

No, it's usually a process that's either hung on a thread, or it's
accessing disk or something like that.

Yousuf Khan

 

[micky]

Actually, it is quite normal. If the OP were running Windows 7, then I
could suggest that he open Resource Monitor and he can see what's stuck
and where it's stuck (i.e. processor, memory, disk, network, etc.). But
in XP, you can only really check for processor utilization through Task
Manager. Process Explorer helps a bit more, but not that much, Resource
Monitor is the best.

Good ideas.

I thought in my currently broken computer, I had some independently
written resource monitor. Is that possible?

That computer itself is broken, the cpu. Eventually I'll replace the
cpu or try that special software we talked about 9 months ago to
install the harddrive into another computer.

 

[micky]

And, in Task Manager, what process is up the most CPU usage at the time?

I will check.

Since the apps you mention are network-capable apps, what happens when
you disable your anti-virus, firewall, or other 3rd party security apps?

I will check.

I don't get nearly as many viruses in the email as I used to, and none
that I wouldnt' recognize without the AV program. . But I hear there
are viruses on webpages. Need I fear turning off my AV as long as I
don't open any new pages or any pages I don't go to often?

Thanks.

 

[micky]

No, it's usually a process that's either hung on a thread, or it's
accessing disk or something like that.

Yousuf Khan

Thanks, and thanks all. I'll try to pay more attention to when it
happens. .

 

[Yousuf Khan]

I thought in my currently broken computer, I had some independently
written resource monitor. Is that possible?

Well Windows Vista/7's Resource Monitor is apparently kind of a
front-end to Perfmon, which is also there in XP. However, it's quite a
sophisticated front-end, it's not just a matter of downloading some user
scripts that'll turn your Perfmon into Resmon. Win7's Resmon has helped
solve a lot of problems for me, stuff that I'd just grown to accept
under XP.

According to this page, http://is.gd/K87Jbn, you can download the
Sysinternals Suite, and use a combination of its ProcExplorer, FileMon,
and TCPView, to get similar functionality, but it's not all available in
a single all-in-one utility like ResMon. It's probably as good as you
can hope for right now under XP. Sysinternals can be downloaded here:

Sysinternals Suite
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062

Yousuf Khan

 

[micky]

Well Windows Vista/7's Resource Monitor is apparently kind of a
front-end to Perfmon, which is also there in XP. However, it's quite a
sophisticated front-end, it's not just a matter of downloading some user
scripts that'll turn your Perfmon into Resmon. Win7's Resmon has helped
solve a lot of problems for me, stuff that I'd just grown to accept
under XP.

According to this page, http://is.gd/K87Jbn, you can download the
Sysinternals Suite, and use a combination of its ProcExplorer, FileMon,
and TCPView, to get similar functionality, but it's not all available in
a single all-in-one utility like ResMon. It's probably as good as you
can hope for right now under XP. Sysinternals can be downloaded here:

Sysinternals Suite
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062

Yousuf Khan

Thanks Maybe that's what I was thinking of since, on the broken
computer, I do have several programs from Sysinternals