CPU trouble

PearlJamaholic

how do i adjust page file? ive never messed with that before.

sennin

PearlJamaholic wrote:

how do i adjust page file? ive never messed with that before.

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

PearlJamaholic

ah its virtual memory! i messed around with that before. but according to the article i only need ram+VM=500mb or atleast 100mb. the virtual memory is set 'system mange size' and has 2046 allocated already. and im only using around 400 of that. so i should be ok with page file/VM, right? i use to have it set at custom at the recommended 3096. i dont remember if i had the max at or above 3096.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

PearlJamaholic wrote:

ah its virtual memory! i messed around with that before. but according to the article i only need ram+VM=500mb or atleast 100mb. the virtual memory is set 'system mange size' and has 2046 allocated already. and im only using around 400 of that. so i should be ok with page file/VM, right? i use to have it set at custom at the recommended 3096. i dont remember if i had the max at or above 3096.

You have 2 gigs of ram. I wouldn't worry about your page file, you have to exceed avail hardware ram before windows starts creating it virtually on your drive. Set it to 2048 and make it static not dynamic, as it won't get fragmented that way.

Your PC isn't going to experience any performance issues until you're at about 100bm of free and less on your drive typically in the 50mb range for what you are describing on a workstation. If it's XP the O/S would be bugging you about it long before then anyways. Especially seeing as your files are not fragmented. I've setup a lot of production servers and seen some pretty crazy situations.

My take is your browser has been knicked by malware in the past and is damaged in the registry to a certain degree.

PearlJamaholic

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

What I would do is download firefox to see if it resolves.. It's a way better browser in every regard. You want to get the adblock plus addon for firefox as well.

here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

then here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865 (make sure to choose a subscription server)

then install this theme
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/72

voila...nice solid browser.

Alternately you can logon as another user, to see determine if it's your registry profile that's damaged. Windows just breaks after a while, many variables play into it the health and longevity of a user profile. I could determine the problem in 10 mins flat if I had your PC in front of me without question.

Either of those two scenarios should identify and resolve the problem. I doesn't sound like a hardware issue to me.

let me know.

ok im running firefox now. no real verdict yet but it doesnt lag when i go to different pages, atleast not yet. the font looks strange to me though.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

PearlJamaholic wrote:

ok im running firefox now. no real verdict yet but it doesnt lag when i go to different pages, atleast not yet. the font looks strange to me though.

I'm not sure what the default font sets are for each. You can hold down the ctrl button and use the scroll wheel on the mouse up and down to adjust the font size real quick. On the content page in options you can set the font to arial if it isn't already.

I'd be curious to know if your hosts file has anything extra in it.

You can find it at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

double click the file called "hosts" and open it with notepad when asked to choose a program.

it should look something like this, and have one entry for localhost 127.0.0.1 (by default)

i.e.

---

# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one space.
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
# For example:
# Permit this.

127.0.0.1 localhost

---

I can't count how many adware/malware infestations I've cleaned up for people. It's practically all I did for two years on service calls at one point, before people got wise to using spybot ad aware etc... It's still a pretty big problem. Make surte to install adblock plus as well, it blocks all the knows adware sites at the domain level.

PearlJamaholic

this is what i have. should i delete the acme ones?

# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

and thanks for all the help. im pretty much always trying to learn new things. i had to reinstall windows a-many-a times cause i had to mess with things. but you learn some stuff. but you can only learn so much just by trial and error approach.

lalalalaaaaaaaa

PearlJamaholic wrote:

this is what i have. should i delete the acme ones?

# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

and thanks for all the help. im pretty much always trying to learn new things. i had to reinstall windows a-many-a times cause i had to mess with things. but you learn some stuff. but you can only learn so much just by trial and error approach.

Anything with a # in front of it isn't being used, so you don't need to delete those.

PearlJamaholic

im giving firefox another chance. i definitely need to fix the font though. work on that later. and does the bookmarks do the same thing that IE does that it only shows your most used?

i do like the master password thing though.