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My machine seems to be very 'jumpy' all of a sudden. When I say 'jumpy' I mean the computer just slows right down and doesn't respond imideatly, and if I click a few time, or type a few words they all suddenly happen and respond at once.

Any reason why this is??? That system resorce monitor on Win98 says there is 70% Free recorses, so it can't be lack of Memory, can it?

Is your hard drive nearly full as this can greatly reduce speed also a small amount of ram can make things slower, i suggest keep you hard drive under 60% full (just to make sure) and if you have 128MB ram or under then get another 128MB, also check the heat of the cpu, maybe get a ram scrubbing software of line as windows tends to kep unused dll's after programs finish and after a while this will slow your system down.

hope i was of help mate

c.b.

hehe, its going ok this morning :o)

.... so far.

REEEEESSSTTAAARRRTTT BEEEFFFOOORREE IIIITTSSS TOOO LAAATTTEE!!!

My mouse pointer is now shakling on its own, bloody machine. Its cursed.

cjh wrote:
> Thing is, its not a one off thing, is happened all day :'(.
>
> I installed the Soundcard stuff yesterday, and it has sound
> editor/mixer on it. I be it that. Thing is it never used to do that,
> ever since I formated and started over, I hadn't installed the mixer
> again until now..... WTF us going on??? lol.
>
> Cheers anyway.

the soundcard could be installed wrong, so that every time a request is sent to it, even if a sound is not playing, the computer will slow down as it deals with the false request....

??? It just did it again when my download completed..... and the Mixer isn't even loaded??

You recon another Re-format is in order???

Thing is, its not a one off thing, is happened all day :'(.

I installed the Soundcard stuff yesterday, and it has sound editor/mixer on it. I be it that. Thing is it never used to do that, ever since I formated and started over, I hadn't installed the mixer again until now..... WTF us going on??? lol.

Cheers anyway.

Turbonutter wrote:
> These are symptoms of a high load average. Reboot. Reboots solve all.

yes, reboot, then u can stop sending msgs that i feel obliged to reply to, and i can go to bed...

These are symptoms of a high load average. Reboot. Reboots solve all.

do u have any programs running in the background which could be using up resources - e.g. antivirus/backup/spyware etc???

it may be that the system is too hot, though im not an expert on hardware probs...