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From: Gas Bag on 19 Feb 2010 04:52 I've recently installed Windows XP Home on a partitioned hard drive. The C: Drive (which contains the operating system) is about 10GB, and the D: Drive is about 18GB. I have the most horrendous case of hard drive thrashing that I've ever come across. It's particularly bad whenever I open up an Internet Explorer 8 webpage, even if that page is simply sitting idle. I confirmed this when I downloaded and ran "Process Explorer". I don't have Norton installed on my system, and I've defragged both my C: and D: Drives, as well as cleaning out all temp folders. I recently followed these instructions: http://bucarotechelp.com/computers/windowsts/95021801.asp But still this problem of thrashing continues. It's got so bad my system freezes (or comes very close to it). Please help!
From: Franco Leuzzi [MVP] on 19 Feb 2010 06:16 "Gas Bag" ha scritto nel messaggio > I've recently installed Windows XP Home on a partitioned hard drive. > The C: Drive (which contains the operating system) is about 10GB, and > the D: Drive is about 18GB. I have the most horrendous case of hard > drive thrashing that I've ever come across. It's particularly bad > whenever I open up an Internet Explorer 8 webpage, even if that page > is simply sitting idle. I confirmed this when I downloaded and ran > "Process Explorer". I don't have Norton installed on my system, and > I've defragged both my C: and D: Drives, as well as cleaning out all > temp folders. > I recently followed these instructions: > > http://bucarotechelp.com/computers/windowsts/95021801.asp > > But still this problem of thrashing continues. It's got so bad my > system freezes (or comes very close to it). Please help! Sorry. This is an Italian NG. Best regards. -- Franco Leuzzi Microsoft � MVP Windows Desktop Experience francoleuzzi(a)mvps.org http://blogs.dotnethell.it/franco/
From: Ol�rin on 19 Feb 2010 11:27 "Franco Leuzzi [MVP]" <francoleuzzi(a)mvps.org> wrote in message news:hllrua$clc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > "Gas Bag" ha scritto nel messaggio > >> I've recently installed Windows XP Home on a partitioned hard drive. >> The C: Drive (which contains the operating system) is about 10GB, and >> the D: Drive is about 18GB. I have the most horrendous case of hard >> drive thrashing that I've ever come across. It's particularly bad >> whenever I open up an Internet Explorer 8 webpage, even if that page >> is simply sitting idle. I confirmed this when I downloaded and ran >> "Process Explorer". I don't have Norton installed on my system, and >> I've defragged both my C: and D: Drives, as well as cleaning out all >> temp folders. >> I recently followed these instructions: >> >> http://bucarotechelp.com/computers/windowsts/95021801.asp >> >> But still this problem of thrashing continues. It's got so bad my >> system freezes (or comes very close to it). Please help! > > Sorry. > This is an Italian NG. > Best regards. > > -- > Franco Leuzzi > Microsoft � MVP > Windows Desktop Experience > francoleuzzi(a)mvps.org > http://blogs.dotnethell.it/franco/ > > Only the Italian one out of those to which you and the OP cross-posted is, though...
From: J. P. Gilliver (John) on 20 Feb 2010 06:36
(Italian 'group removed) In message <f91e4a84-dd6e-4e44-9cd2-ef74fa0c26b7(a)k18g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Gas Bag <shazlikd(a)yahoo.com.au> writes: >I've recently installed Windows XP Home on a partitioned hard drive. >The C: Drive (which contains the operating system) is about 10GB, and >the D: Drive is about 18GB. I have the most horrendous case of hard >drive thrashing that I've ever come across. It's particularly bad Where are your swap file and Temporary Internet files (C: or D:)? How much RAM does the system have? >whenever I open up an Internet Explorer 8 webpage, even if that page >is simply sitting idle. I confirmed this when I downloaded and ran >"Process Explorer". I don't have Norton installed on my system, and What does process explorer - or the Processes tab in task manager (click twice on the CPU column heading) say is using the majority of processor time when this happens? >I've defragged both my C: and D: Drives, as well as cleaning out all >temp folders. >I recently followed these instructions: > >http://bucarotechelp.com/computers/windowsts/95021801.asp Thanks - much useful stuff there; I don't think I learnt anything new, but it's a useful collection all in one place (well, 7 places). > >But still this problem of thrashing continues. It's got so bad my >system freezes (or comes very close to it). Please help! My _guess_ would be insufficient RAM. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar(a)T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** No matter how beautiful a girl is, no matter how much you might love her, squeeze her tight enough and she'll fart - Joe Barron, quoted by son Fred ("My Family" creator), RT, 15-21 March 2003 |