comp techies please help!!!

[IdolDroog]

hey guys,
i dont know if anyone can help me but my computer is pausing/freezing/lagging every minute or two (sometimes more/less) and from what I can see this is down to my PF Usage being anywwhere between 300-400MB which ive read is ridiculously high and its definitely not normally like that.

my CPU Usage is pretty low and ive not got any extra programmes open and cant see any viruses. Ive also run adaware and spybot but nothign deleted helped this issue.

Does anyone have any ideas? Any help seriously appreciated, i dont want this computer to die!
thanks in advance

[Jacques]

Go to Start/Control Panel/Performance & Maintenance/Systems, go to the tab Advanced, then click on Performance Options/Advanced.
There should be a button for Virtual Memory. Click on that.
Then set the Initial Size and Maximum Size both to the same value of 1.5x your PCs amount of memory. If you have 512MB, set it to 768MB. Then click the button Set.
That should lower your PF Usage.

You will probably have to reboot.

[Cenobitez]

My PF is 10GB on my main PC but thats down to 8gb of ram in it heh, i would kill for it to only have a 400mb one heh.

The freezes will either down to rogue software or the PF not matching the ram

Be aware as well that if you have multip drives or partitions, its advisable as a performance tweak to have a pagefile on each drive

[IdolDroog]

thanks Jacques i already tried that one last night, ive also tried system restoring and neither have helped yet.

[IdolDroog]

my hard drive seems to be partitioned into two...i think lol...ive got a C and a D drive if thats what you mean, how would i go about having a pagefile on each drive?

im thinking its rogue software but i havent been able to track anything down yet

thanks so far guys

[MegaTon]

You might have the dreaded Dust Mite problem!

Have a look inside your box and give you heatsink
and just about everything else a good clean inside
your Box!

This might help!

You also done a Defrag of you drives laltely?

[IdolDroog]

its a laptop, but yeh im gonna dust the fan area once defragging done.......its been going half an hour and its only on 1% still lol...ive never done it before no one talks about defragging nowadays!i didnt realise it was still essential because ive never done it on this laptop. people use to always talk about scan disk and defragging !!
thanks guys

ive also deleted a lot of ...er.."stuff".....so ive not got an extra 8GB wohoo, which seems to be helping the problem

[Porn crackers]

"no one talks about defragging nowadays"

Yes I agree, it is something that is known about by "older" users. It would be useful if the OP system gave you a reminder now'n and again to do.

PC

[mart]

I gave up using the MS defragger years ago. Try this one


Mart