system hangs for seconds?

im running xp pro and every now and again the system will hang for 30secs or so, i can switch between programs, but cannot do anything on the programs?!! this is becoming a bit of a pain ! any ideas? ive run scandisc and NAV Thanks...




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#121921 - 03/06/03 04:17 PM system hangs for seconds?
Radioactive Frog Offline
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im running xp pro and every now and again the system will hang for 30secs or so, i can switch between programs, but cannot do anything on the programs?!!

this is becoming a bit of a pain !

any ideas? ive run scandisc and NAV

Thanks

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#121933 - 03/06/03 06:50 PM Re: system hangs for seconds?
freddy Offline
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Registered: 08/30/02
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Can you open Task Manager when this happens...or have it open ready...to see what process is using CPU time during this 30 seconds?

As it's a regular occurance that happens for 30 seconds or so you should be able to narrow it down if there is some background process causing excessive CPU usage.

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Are you running System Restore there &/or indexing service actively?


Alec, what exactly does the indexing service do? I think I've turned it off anyway. Am I right in thinking it just speeds up searching the harddisk, by caching locations of files etc. or something like that?

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#121991 - 03/07/03 01:43 PM Re: system hangs for seconds?
freddy Offline
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Registered: 08/30/02
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Well thats cleared that up, thanks smile

It was definately worth turning it off.

FREDDY

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