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| 43868 | 2002-04-15 03:33:00 | I thought this was just unique to my stupid machine, but I saw it happen on another one today. All of a sudden, seems like a process is hogging processor attention. Wiggle mouse, nothing happens. Do it for about 10-20 seconds, and finally it will move. Then it stops, and comes back, in a cycle. Can take quite a while to close applications, even after you have told them to. You can see them stop while the machine goes off and does something else. It is very strange. My applications in memory are minimal, but include ZA, Webwasher, NAV, a mouse one, volume control. Nothing major or serious. Should be pretty clean virus and spyware-wise. The other machine I observed it on today was not so clean, but should be fine as part of corporate high-paranoia network. On my machine, I can close everything I can see in the systray and it just doesn't come right. Restarting is the only cure. And then it could come right for weeks. Deleting files in Explorer does seem to set it off (no idea why). Anyone got anyideas what might be the problem? robo. |
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| 43869 | 2002-04-15 03:41:00 | Are these both w2k machines, because I have a similar issue... | Guest (0) | ||
| 43870 | 2002-04-15 04:20:00 | Bugger. Sorry. One is Win98SE, other is Win95. Both are IBM 300GL type machines, just coincidence I think. If you have this too, then it has to be a rogue app. Are you running NAV? robo. |
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| 43871 | 2002-04-15 05:48:00 | Findfast.exe maybe?? | Guest (0) | ||
| 43872 | 2002-04-15 06:26:00 | No findfast here, was on the other PC, and was immediately removed when I spotted it. Really got bugger all running on this. robo. |
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| 43873 | 2002-04-15 09:35:00 | I have used both of the following when looking for hidden processes on the PC that affect performance. Try one out to see if either sees a process start when your PC goes sluggish. Process viewer at www.mediahorizon.net Prcview at www.winsite.com They are both tiny files and real easy to use. |
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| 43874 | 2002-04-15 13:02:00 | It's probably one of those mysteries of the winblows operating systems that nobody can explain, the kind that you just accept as part of the package and move on. | Guest (0) | ||
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