I have a DELL Dimension 8100 running Win XP home edition, SP 2. The hard
drive is 20G, with about 4G of free space. I checked, and defragging is not
needed. It has no viruses (AVG protected) and I regularly do a disk cleanup
and run Spysweeper.
Every day lately, after the computer has been running about an hour or so,
it freezes up and the green LED indicates alot of hard drive activity. This
lasts for several minutes. It runs, but only VERY slowly during this
period - it is practically unusable. Then it resumes normal operation.
The other day I briefly saw an error message that said in part that the
"Windows subsystem may be unstable."
Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?
Do you leave your computer on 24/7?
Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it
is more informative.
Any memory optimisers installed?
Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in
the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No
Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in
a previous boot.
You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer.
A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
Event Viewer.
What firewall are you relying upon.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Howard Davis wrote:
> I have a DELL Dimension 8100 running Win XP home edition, SP 2. The
> hard drive is 20G, with about 4G of free space. I checked, and
> defragging is not needed. It has no viruses (AVG protected) and I
> regularly do a disk cleanup and run Spysweeper.
>
> Every day lately, after the computer has been running about an hour
> or so, it freezes up and the green LED indicates alot of hard drive
> activity. This lasts for several minutes. It runs, but only VERY
> slowly during this period - it is practically unusable. Then it
> resumes normal operation.
> The other day I briefly saw an error message that said in part that
> the "Windows subsystem may be unstable."
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
"Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:OPMB9FwVIHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Howard
>
> How much RAM memory?
128M
> Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
> Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?
total 262,216
limit 387,016
peak 363,912
> Do you leave your computer on 24/7?
No.
> Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
> click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
> Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it
> is more informative.
RESULTS:
Volume (C
Volume size = 18.64 GB
Cluster size = 16 KB
Used space = 14.82 GB
Free space = 3.81 GB
Percent free space = 20 %
Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 9 %
File fragmentation = 18 %
Free space fragmentation = 1 %
File fragmentation
Total files = 84,578
Average file size = 167 KB
Total fragmented files = 613
Total excess fragments = 3,160
Average fragments per file = 1.03
> Please post copies of all Error and Warning Reports appearing in
> the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for the last boot. No
> Information Reports or Duplicates please. Indicate which also appear in
> a previous boot.
> You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
> Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer.
>
> A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
> click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
> button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event
> Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
> the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from
> Event Viewer.
THE ABOVE is the FIRST of TWENTY warnings dated for the last (1/15) bootup
in the applications log. Need I post them all?
The source listed for all of these is MsInstaller.
Similar lists of warnings are present for all past bootups, all from
MsInstaller.
ERROR from the SYSTEM log, one of two:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 1/15/2008
Time: 3:18:35 PM
User: N/A
Computer: 44FHV01
Description:
The Webroot Spy Sweeper Engine service failed to start due to the following
error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely
fashion.
ERROR, two of two:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7009
Date: 1/15/2008
Time: 3:18:35 PM
User: N/A
Computer: 44FHV01
Description:
Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the Webroot Spy Sweeper Engine
service to connect.
The above two errors occurred the previous day as well.
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> What firewall are you relying upon.
Windows firewall.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
> ~~~~
> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
Thank you, Gerry.
Now that we have all this information, what remedial actions are indicated?
Howard
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> Howard Davis wrote:
>> I have a DELL Dimension 8100 running Win XP home edition, SP 2. The
>> hard drive is 20G, with about 4G of free space. I checked, and
>> defragging is not needed. It has no viruses (AVG protected) and I
>> regularly do a disk cleanup and run Spysweeper.
>>
>> Every day lately, after the computer has been running about an hour
>> or so, it freezes up and the green LED indicates alot of hard drive
>> activity. This lasts for several minutes. It runs, but only VERY
>> slowly during this period - it is practically unusable. Then it
>> resumes normal operation.
>> The other day I briefly saw an error message that said in part that
>> the "Windows subsystem may be unstable."
>>
>> Any advice would be appreciated.
"Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:F68EFE9E-1304-4E0C-A6D7-A240C04183D5@microsoft.com...
> "Howard Davis" <howard.davis2xspam@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> news:vKQij.134896$MJ6.23165@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>>I have a DELL Dimension 8100 running Win XP home edition, SP 2. The hard
>>drive is 20G, with about 4G of free space. I checked, and defragging is
>>not needed. It has no viruses (AVG protected) and I regularly do a disk
>>cleanup and run Spysweeper.
>>
>> Every day lately, after the computer has been running about an hour or
>> so, it freezes up and the green LED indicates alot of hard drive
>> activity. This lasts for several minutes. It runs, but only VERY slowly
>> during this period - it is practically unusable. Then it resumes normal
>> operation.
>>
>> The other day I briefly saw an error message that said in part that the
>> "Windows subsystem may be unstable."
>>
>> Any advice would be appreciated.
>>
>
> Could this be AVG's daily virus scan?
No, it only updates or scans when I tell it to do so manually.
In this respect it is far better than McAfee or Symantec, which slowed my
computer intolerably.
> Click the carat to expand the Notification area and see if there is a
> second AVG icon with a little white square in the middle.
?
> --
> Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
> www.fjsmjs.com
> Do not reply with email
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