This is where you can get that little clock utility I was talking about. It's freeware and really good. http://www.rcis.co.za/dale/tclockex/index.htm Sandi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Noble" <bnoble@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pcductape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 1:55 AM Subject: [pcductape] Re: memory usage | Hi Sandi, | That's a good way to look at memory usage. | Thanks, | Bob Noble | www.sonic.net/bnoble | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Huntress" <sanneumann@xxxxxxxxxxx> | To: <pcductape@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> | Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 10:00 PM | Subject: [pcductape] Re: (no subject) | | | >I was thinking that maybe one of the sticks could have gone bad. Try | > pulling them both out, clean the contacts and put them back in. The only | > other thing I can think of would be to monitor what is taking up your | > resources. I have a GB of RAM but my system was locking up and freezing for | > no reason that I could see. I have a small clock utility that shows free | > RAM in the system tray and I noticed that when this was happening my RAM was | > dropping from 754MB free to 4MB. What I did was open up the task manager | > and clicked on the Processes tab then clicked on the bar that says "Mem | > Usage" so that it would put the heaviest load on top. Then I sat and | > watched for a little while until the RAM on the systray showed a very high | > load and what do I find? Indexing service had been turned on by one of the | > MS updates!!! I shut it down then went into Services from Start/All | > Programs/Administrative Tools and used it to disable the service. Things | > run a lot smoother now. | | To unsubscribe from this list send an email to | pcductape-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field | OR by logging into the Web interface. | | To view the message archives simply go to: http://www.freelists.org/archives/pcductape/ | Take a look at our homepage at http://sanneumann.home.comcast.net/ To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pcductape-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface. To view the message archives simply go to: http://www.freelists.org/archives/pcductape/ Take a look at our homepage at http://sanneumann.home.comcast.net/