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| Thread ID: 25590 | 2002-10-07 12:24:00 | why does my puter freeze for bout 20 secs when i delete things? | sal (67) | Press F1 |
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| 86865 | 2002-10-07 12:24:00 | when ever i delete things (which i always do while holding down shift, i ONLY delete if it needs to be), the computer always hangs for about 20 seconds, sometimes longeer, but it always comes back into reality, a few other things like creating directories, etc usually hang the system i think i may have stuffed up some settings somewhere, cos it never use to do this (about a month ago :?) so what could cause this another problem is that its not regular, usually a rebbot fixes it, but it usually crops back after an hour or so grtz sal. tga |
sal (67) | ||
| 86866 | 2002-10-07 12:31:00 | oh, it also happens when i paste, after copying/cutting :? | sal (67) | ||
| 86867 | 2002-10-07 12:32:00 | renaming (sorry :?) | sal (67) | ||
| 86868 | 2002-10-07 12:53:00 | I find that mine slows too, but thats just because of the size of the file in question. | raddersnz (684) | ||
| 86869 | 2002-10-07 20:32:00 | ok, heres the problem in full: whenever i try to create, delete, rename or move a folder/file (any size), the computer freezes for about 20 secs, but its not like a regular thing, any ideas why? grtz sal. tga |
sal (67) | ||
| 86870 | 2002-10-07 20:51:00 | 1. How much disk space do you have left 2. Have you defragged lately 3. Have you scandisked lately 4. Are you using FAT 16 or 32 5. What OS do you have 6. What have you been playing around, or installing in the last month To me it sounds like your computer is having trouble with the File Allocation Table FAT. And it's taking a while to get the info to and from it, possible because it's damaged, hence the need to do a scandisk. It could also be that your harddrive is stuffed, also check to see if DMA is enabled on the drive, that might help speed up things. Note: the computer is not freezing, it is working, |
roofus (483) | ||
| 86871 | 2002-10-07 22:12:00 | 1. How much disk space do you have left? about 2GB of 8GB (lame, i know) 2. Have you defragged lately yep, bout 2 months ago (for the third time ever in about 3 years) 3. Have you scandisked lately yip 4. Are you using FAT 16 or 32 FAT32 5. What OS do you have win98se 6. What have you been playing around, or installing in the last month only thing i can think of is super rabbit magic set (only thing i could think stuffed up from this is the swap file, but i reconfigured it with nortons utilities optimzer thingy ma-jig grtz sal. tga oh yeh, well, it does kinda freeze, i cant do anything until the 'operation' finishes, or is this called something else? |
sal (67) | ||
| 86872 | 2002-10-07 22:26:00 | I thought it was a win98SE thing. i get the same whenever i rename/move/delete a few hundred files.. Kazaa does it as well. If i have a REAL good clean up, i usually find that it's easyer to reboot than wait for my computer to regain speed.. It gets to the point where reponces are slower than my typing speed, which is not fast. I always put it down to something hanging on to all my RAM... i don't know what though. |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
| 86873 | 2002-10-07 22:36:00 | the problem is it happens to me when i even delete 1 thing :?, although it does sometimes help if i have a clean up (although cleaning up often means several waits while deleting things etc) grtz sal. tga |
sal (67) | ||
| 86874 | 2002-10-07 22:51:00 | Check your DMA settings. Is it enabled. try a defrag also, it might help a little. If infact your FAT is ok (which it should be cause you have done a scandisk) then my only other theory is that the information been sent to and from your harddrive is really slow, how does your hard-disk resond in other activities, such as games etc? also open up a dos window, and try creating/deleting a directory in their, if the resonse is slow their, then u have a disk problem. If it's fast then you have a windows problem |
roofus (483) | ||
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