William

Try PageFile Monitor. This is a better indicator but memory is
most likely not the problem. It just needs to be eliminated.

What about these questions?

How large is your hard drive? Is it partitioned? How much free space on each
drive / partition? How is the drive / partition 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.

What is your CPU speed?

Please look in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for Warning
and Error Reports over the last 2 days use and post copies here.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools, and
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...308427&sd=tech

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should
double click for further information. You can copy using copy and paste.
Often the link will, however, say there is no further information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

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.


Hope this helps.

Gerry
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<billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message news:43B46E6D.2070409@nospam.org...
> Here's what Task Mgr reports:
>
> Totals: Handles 9701 Threads 626 Processes 46
> Commit Charge(K): Total 255936 Limit 2398164 Peak 301016
>
> Phys Mem: Total 1015280 Available 662344 SysCache 513764
>
> Kernel Mem: Total 54816 Paged 30452 Non-paged 24364
>
> It looks like there's enough of everything to spare,
> but how do I know? One would think that a Meg of RAM ought to
> suffice, and it always did until this recent noticeable
> slowdown, with no changes in anything that I'm aware of.
>
> I would have thought that since chkdsk/r runs only during boot-up,
> before any of my own applications are loaded, that it would
> perforce have all the resources it needs. Correct me if I'm
> wrong in that line of thinking. Of course, while it's running
> chkdsk, there's nothing, but nothing, I can do except time it.
>
> Thanks for sticking with me on this.
>
> Gerry Cornell wrote:
>> How much RAM memory? Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and
>> click the Performance Tab. What is the Total, the Commit Charge and the
>> Peak?
>>
>> You may check on pagefile (virtual memory) usage with Page File Monitor
>> for
>> XP:
>> http://www.dougknox.com/
>>
>> If you get anything much more than 20 / 30 mb virtual memory usage you
>> need to add RAM memory. The system uses virtual memory for a
>> limited number of tasks rather than RAM memory.
>>
>> Make sure you study the readme.txt file carefully to ensure you get the
>> utility to work as it should.
>>
>> Have you installed any "memory boosters" ?
>>
>> How large is your hard drive? Is it partitioned? How much free space on
>> each
>> drive / partition? How is the drive / partition 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.
>>
>> I have recently dumped Norton Anti-Virus in favour of AVG 7 ( freeware )
>> and
>> Norton Personal Firewall for the Windows Firewall. If your system is
>> struggling
>> then a similar change would definitely help with your performance. I do
>> not
>> agree with Mike Hall regarding Microsoft Anti-Spyware.
>>
>
>
> --
> William B. Lurie