re: random problems loading programs in xp...
Friday, October 28, 2005 at 3:19 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Big John
(105 messages posted)
This sounds like a lack of availible memory. WinXP maybe spooling out to veritual
memory on the hard drive. When you open Windows Task Manager click the performance
tab and check the amount of memory being used in the tables at the bottom. If you're
over running what you have installed, this is your problem. I have new notebook that
came with 256Mg and with all the stuff I load I was using 286Mg. So some of the things
I was using spooled to the HD. I add a 512Mg sodimm and things improved and runs
a lot faster!. Good Luck! BJ
On Friday, October 28, 2005 at 10:29 am, drainer wrote:
>Does anyone else have the same problem as me?
>I've been having this problem often with certain programs -- I'll try to run it,
>it won't load. I try to run it again, then it loads. Five minutes later, the original
>click loads it as well.
>
>If I run task manager when this happens it will show that the memory block is something
>like 56k, so I terminate it. It then works after I do that.
>
>For instance, I just shut down and reloaded outlook express 3 times. On the fourth
>time I tried to load it, it didn't load. It did the 56k thing.
>
>It also happens sometimes to WinRAR.
>
>And it has always happened with this appraisal software that I just installed....
>in fact, the appraisal software loads a huge pagefile which completely hinders my
>system.
>
>I hope I explained it correctly, or made some sense of it. Anyone have similar problems?
>I suspect it could be my firewall, although it still happens with the other software
> when I disable it...
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