Andrew
One reason your system is slow is that you have far too little free disk
space on
your C drive. It equates to 5%! I am making some suggestions below but you
should consider either storing data on backup media, discarding some of
what is there or a combination of both. You need to get to 20% free space.
To investigate how you are using hard disk space you need to make sure that
you can see all files. Go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options, View,
Advanced Settings and verify that the box before "Show hidden files and
folders" is checked and "Hide protected operating system files " is
unchecked. You may need to scroll down to see the second item. You should
also make certain that the box before "Hide extensions for known file types"
is not checked. Next in Windows Explorer make sure View, Details is selected
and then select View, Choose Details and check before Name, Type, Total
Size, and Free Space.
I would expect the operating system to take up 6 - 8 gb, programmes a like
amount and so you have data and other files taking up 88 gb. This a lot but
it
does depend on what the computer is used for.
If your Windows operating system is on your C drive then turning off
monitoring
of D is correct as you only need to monitor the system partition. An
inability to
restore may be the result of insufficient disk space. In any event it may
not offer
the solution you need to solve your problems.
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/adjustdihealthy.html
To increase your free space on your C select Start, All Programs,
Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and
remove all but the latest System Restore points? Restore points can be quite
large. By the way System Restore Points are hidden files which you will not
see even after you have taken the measures to show hidden files detailed
above.
You should use Disk CleanUp regularly to Empty your Recycle Bin and
Remove Temporary Internet Files. Whenever you remove redundant files you
should always run Disk Defragmenter by selecting Start, All Programs,
Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter.
It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore on
your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb. Right
click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System Restore.
Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time find the
slider
and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and exit. When you get to the
Settings screen click on Apply and OK and exit. This will give you some
breathing space as if you were using the default setting you now have an
extra 12 gb. Before you had insufficient space to do a proper
defragmentation.
Another potential gain arises if your operating is on your C drive. In the
Windows Directory of your C partition you will have some Uninstall folders
in your Windows folder typically: $NtServicePackUninstall$ and
$NtUninstallKB282010$ etc.
These files may be compressed or not compressed. If compressed the text
of the folder name appears in blue characters. If not compressed you can
compress them. Right click on each folder and select Properties, General,
Advanced and check the box before Compress contents to save Disk Space.
On the General Tab you can see the amount gained by deducting the size
on disk from the size. Folder compression is only an option on a NTFS
formatted drive / partition.
Another default setting on a large drive which could be wasteful is that for
temporary internet files especially if you do not store offline copies on
disk.
The default allocation is 3% of drive. Depending on your attitude to offline
copies you could reduce this to 1% saving 2 gb. In Internet Explorer select
Tools, Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files, Settings to make
the change. At the same time look at the number of days history is held.
The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. On your drive
5%
should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor on your Recycle
Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and move the slider from 10%
to 5% to gain 5.5 gb.
In my earlier post I asked for information from Task Manager. What is the
Total, the Commit Charge and the Peak?
If you want me to help with Error messages I also need copies of the full
message not extracts. My last post explained how to copy and paste
these reports.
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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"Andrew Schumer" <AndrewSchumer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1A6227D5-1BAE-445B-9750-8CBB8CE76EFD@microsoft.com...
> Via "safe mode" I was able to get some additional information:
>
> As for Task Manager:
> I've checked that out and there isn't anything listed that is hogging
> the
> CPU or Memory. I don't have specifics on page faults, etc..., but it
> didn't
> seem abnormal. Then all of a sudden whatever is bogging the system down,
> releases, because all of a sudden all the things I've clicked on and tried
> to
> open, all execute at once.
>
> As for the harddrive and partitions:
> C: is NTFS 110GB with 6GB Free
> D: is FAT32 3.6GB with 730 Free (I inherited this computer and this
> partition contains the original configuration and is password protected. I
> can not access this but haven't had a chance to reformat it).
>
> I've tried running scandisk, defrag, disk cleanup, cleaned up old restore
> points. ran adaware and spybot. Additionally I use Microsoft SpyWare and
> another free virus program (can't recall the name offhand).
>
> EVENT LOG: Numerous DCOM errors that are identicall except the GUID
> changes:
> EVENTID: 10010
> EVENT SOURCE: DCOM
> DESCRIPTION: The server {BA126AD1-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E} did not
> register with DCOM within the required timeout.
>
> Some of the other GUID's were:
> {A9E69610-B80D-11D0-B9B9-00A0C922E750}
> {8BC3F05E-D86B-11D0-A075-00C04FB68820}
> {BA126AE5-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}
>
>
> Thanks,
> andrew
>
>
>
>
> Gerry Cornell" wrote:
>
>> Andrew
>>
>> Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to bring Task Manager and select the Performance Tab.
>> What is the Total, the Commit Charge and the Peak?
>>
>> How large is your hard drive? Is it partitioned? How much free space on
>> each
>> drive / partition. How is the drive formatted -FAT32 or NTFS. To get this
>> information whilst in Windows Explorer place the cursor on each drive in
>> turn, right click and select Properties.
>>
>> Look in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for Warning and
>> Error Reports and post copies here.
>>
>> You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools,
>> Event
>> Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding
>> Event ID, Source and
>> Description are important.
>>
>> HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp
>>
>> 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. Double click the button and close Event Viewer. Now
>> start your message(email) and do a paste into the body of the message.
>> This
>> will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error Report
>> complete with links into the message. Make sure this is the first paste
>> after exiting from Event Viewer.
>>
>> Try Start, All Programmes, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to
>> Empty
>> your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Delete all but the
>> most recent Restore Point ( Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools,
>> Disk
>> Cleanup, More options). Run Disk Defragmenter by selecting Start, All
>> Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>>
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>
>> "Andrew Schumer" <Andrew Schumer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:06752797-F3CE-4968-94A3-928A8D5EA271@microsoft.com...
>> > Windows XP SP2 w/ 1G memory and HP PSC 950Xi printer.
>> >
>> > Safe mode is okay, and bootup and shut down are okay.
>> >
>> > No matter what I click on it takes 5 minutes to respond, plus it also
>> > stalls
>> > for 5 minutes whenever the cursor passes over the arrow for a foldout
>> > menu
>> > (like in the start and programs menu). So just to get to the Start/
>> > Program
>> > Files/Accessories/ System Tools - takes half an hour.
>> >
>> > I tried using System Restore, but after doing its thing and rebooting,
>> > the
>> > message says it was incomplete and made no changes. (I suspect because
>> > I
>> > had
>> > monitoring turned off on the D drive - the D drive is password
>> > protected
>> > to
>> > restore the system to original configuration).
>> >
>> > This all started when my printer software got corrupt (and this
>> > happened
>> > after reinstalling Windows Media Player 9, then uninstalling it and
>> > reinstalling WMP10). Afterwards, my printer wouldn't print. So I tried
>> > to
>> > uninstall and reinstall the software, but it doesn't install correctly.
>> > I
>> > tried to remove all traces of the printer, but it still takes 5 minutes
>> > to
>> > respond.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions please?
>>
>>
>>