My PC is working hard on the hard drive and I"m not sure what is running or if something is updating or exactly what is going on? I check processes and most of the processor activity is system idle.
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Most likely your computer is using part of your hard drive for virtual RAM space - check your Memory usage and your Virtual Memory usage on the task manager. It's likely that you dont' have sufficient RAM to store all the information the computer wants/needs to store with what you're doing. We have had the same issue with our paltry 512MB of RAM on the machine at home, so I've just bought 2 GB and it should be arriving today (whoopee!)
This is the taskmanger report; I don't know how to read it I'm sorry to say; but it doesn't look bad to me??Most likely your computer is using part of your hard drive for virtual RAM space - check your Memory usage and your Virtual Memory usage on the task manager. It's likely that you dont' have sufficient RAM to store all the information the computer wants/needs to store with what you're doing. We have had the same issue with our paltry 512MB of RAM on the machine at home, so I've just bought 2 GB and it should be arriving today (whoopee!)
This is the taskmanger report; I don't know how to read it I'm sorry to say; but it doesn't look bad to me??Most likely your computer is using part of your hard drive for virtual RAM space - check your Memory usage and your Virtual Memory usage on the task manager. It's likely that you dont' have sufficient RAM to store all the information the computer wants/needs to store with what you're doing. We have had the same issue with our paltry 512MB of RAM on the machine at home, so I've just bought 2 GB and it should be arriving today (whoopee!)
This is the taskmanger report; I don't know how to read it I'm sorry to say; but it doesn't look bad to me??Most likely your computer is using part of your hard drive for virtual RAM space - check your Memory usage and your Virtual Memory usage on the task manager. It's likely that you dont' have sufficient RAM to store all the information the computer wants/needs to store with what you're doing. We have had the same issue with our paltry 512MB of RAM on the machine at home, so I've just bought 2 GB and it should be arriving today (whoopee!)
You have 69 processes. Use WinPatrol, reboot, then see what it says.
What is Winpatrol?
Chris,
Go to the Task Manager, and go to View, then Select Columns. Then check the columns for I/O writes and I/O read. That will put the disk writing statistics in your Task Manager. Then click on that column header to sort by that. You will be able to see what is writing.
Just a guess, but it is likely a search program or an AV.
Chris,
Go to the Task Manager, and go to View, then Select Columns. Then check the columns for I/O writes and I/O read. That will put the disk writing statistics in your Task Manager. Then click on that column header to sort by that. You will be able to see what is writing.
Just a guess, but it is likely a search program or an AV.
What is an AV?
In addition to the other suggestions you should look to see if the
"Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching"
option is turned on for your hard drive. Sometimes it can cause a hard drive to churn and churn.
SpeedGuide.net :: Windows 2k/XP Tweaks
Anti-virus
That may be it; or maybe X1 was updating? I turned off indexing, but it is taking a while going through each file now turning it off. This won't affect X1 will it?
In addition to the other suggestions you should look to see if the
"Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching"
option is turned on for your hard drive. Sometimes it can cause a hard drive to churn and churn.
SpeedGuide.net :: Windows 2k/XP Tweaks
That may be it; or maybe X1 was updating? I turned off indexing, but it is taking a while going through each file now turning it off. This won't affect X1 will it?
In addition to the other suggestions you should look to see if the
"Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching"
option is turned on for your hard drive. Sometimes it can cause a hard drive to churn and churn.
SpeedGuide.net :: Windows 2k/XP Tweaks