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| Thread ID: 26410 | 2002-10-26 20:46:00 | Fellow SystemWorks users | roofus (483) | Press F1 |
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| 93267 | 2002-10-26 20:46:00 | Guys, i've had systemworks (2003)on my computer (WinME) for a few days now, and all i've had is problems. 1. Go-back has caused my computer to stop resoponding during bootups twice. trying to rever the drive to an earlier period makes no difference also. So i have uninstalled that for the time being as i don't want thing stuffing up with only a few weeks of uni left. 2. My system resources seem to be taking a bit of a hit. On startup there is about 80% free which is fine with me, but very easily with opening a few programmes it can drop down to 10% (thats when you get the out of memory message). Can you guys have a watch and see how your computer is reacting. I have reason to believe some hook or dll that systemworks is using is 16Bit and causeing this suckage on system resources. I Have had a look for the 16 bit critter but have yet to find it. Can you please get back to me if, this sounds familiar, or you have had similar problems. |
roofus (483) | ||
| 93268 | 2002-10-26 22:02:00 | I always thought that Go Back, was similar to the System Restore facility in WinME. Maybe if you disabled System Restore. They might be working against each other. BALDY:-) |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 93269 | 2002-10-26 22:14:00 | Hi roofus.I've got SW2002 and didn't install Goback as ME has System Restore,so I thought why install another to do the same job,as I understand it. Otherwise I have no problem with the pc resources,with 256 RAM.You don't mention yours.While typing this the resource meter is showing system resources 56% free, user res.56% free,GDI res.78% free.That's with IE,OE and Chime Tray player going. |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 93270 | 2002-10-27 00:37:00 | well exept for the trouble goback/defrag caused, it is running ok. did you have a previous ver of nortons installed before? might need to clean all the old bits out first before installing. the only thing i hated was the messenger protetion ran messanger in the background. that could cause the performance hit you have got. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 93271 | 2002-10-27 04:01:00 | OK Go-back disables System Restore, so that didn't cause my first problem. Also for other people reading system restore and Go-Back are different, Go-back back's up a lot more stuff than System Restore so hence it is better (well in theory) I did have a previous nortons on (2001) but i uninstalled that before i put 2003 on, so it should not have had a problem there. For the person who mentioned resources thanks, also for your info the amount resources is not really tied to RAM at all, hence why i didn't mention it, but for future discussion i have 256 Tweake, that messenger protection can be disabled, Personally i don't see a need for it, I could understand why you may use that facility with ICQ where you get random people talking to you, but Messenger is a bit more discreete and i have never had a random person talking to me (holds his breath while checking out the functions of Messenger 5.0) SO yea, im still stuck between a rock and a hard place |
roofus (483) | ||
| 93272 | 2002-10-27 04:18:00 | >I did have a previous nortons on (2001) but i uninstalled that before i put 2003 on, so it should not have had a problem there. *cough* yea sure...this is nortons were talking about ;-) i would suggest a total clean out. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 93273 | 2002-10-27 04:46:00 | You might have hit the nail on the head Tweak'e | Baldy (26) | ||
| 93274 | 2002-10-27 08:23:00 | Just another thought,roofus.If you've got Norton's System Doctor enabled,I understand that chews a bit of resources. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 93275 | 2002-10-28 09:10:00 | Go Back needs to create an 'image' of the C drive in order to do it's job; this happens in the background (causing a performance hit) and takes a long time. Things should get back to normal when it's finished. Try leaving your computer on over night for a few nights; that is if you don't trust ME's system restore, which never worked on my computer. Vince | Vince (406) | ||
| 93276 | 2002-10-28 20:39:00 | Sorry VInce, but that has nothing to do with why system resources are taking a hit. It might explain disk activity, but not low system resources. | roofus (483) | ||
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