Annoyed! Hardware and Software Information Security by marinecorps0656 Ok after much reserch I have been mostley succesfull at deleting the malicious code on my computer, but not completely. here is my hijack this log: * HijackThis v1.98 * Written by Merijn - [email]merijn@spywareinfo.com[/email] [url]http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip[/url] [url]http://www.merijn.org/index.html[/url] See bottom for … Re: Annoyed! Hardware and Software Information Security by caperjack [QUOTE=marinecorps0656]Ok after much reserch I have been mostley succesfull at deleting the malicious code on my computer, but not completely. here is my hijack this log: * HijackThis v1.98 * Written by Merijn - [email]merijn@spywareinfo.com[/email] [url]http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip[/url] [url]http://www.merijn.org/index.html[/… Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 I know a need a new computer but I thought I would get a second opinion on what is causing my Firefox to stall when I'm trying to view sites (like this one). Also, it slows down on project playlist. Sometimes I see the java icon when it slows down. This can happen when I'm trying to swich tabs, but on this site for example, it's slow even to to … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Suspishio Hi again. Although youy prolly answered your own question, just about evrything matters when you have little memory. Like the amount of stuff on your desktop (especially full size files rather than shortcuts); the size of your pre-fetch cache. Also there is the possibility of a graphics driver problem, like it's Windows driving your … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 [QUOTE=Suspishio;487259]Hi again. Although youy prolly answered your own question, just about evrything matters when you have little memory. Like the amount of stuff on your desktop (especially full size files rather than shortcuts); the size of your pre-fetch cache. Also there is the possibility of a graphics driver problem, like it's … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 OK I checked the memory usuage and the Page File usage is 375mb. But I'm kind of confused on what the number means. That means it has reserved 375mbs? Which should indicate low memory since I only have 256 I'm assuming. Let me check the processes: Firefox says it's using 145K How much does XP Pro use on average? Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Suspishio Firefox will be using 145MB. Windows will use what's left and splay itself over page files on disk if you have anything else running. In fact everything gets rolled in and out according to what's needed at any time. You've probably got a 2.5GB page file setting (in System/Advanced/Performance-->Settings/Advanced. This means you've got … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 Well it would be worth paying for what 1GB of RDRAM would cost since I have only a 1.5ghz CPU; but it may be a while before I can start over with another computer. What I meant about the hard drive light is it doesn't always look like there's disk thrashing when the computer freezes up for a couple of seconds; but earlier I did see it happen and it… Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Suspishio So that one's solved! But I believe that RDRAM is very expensive, especuially 2 x 512MB. So if you can hang on and get a new PC soonest .... Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 Yes, I think it's solved however the CPU might be lagging as I just noticed that the project playlist is taking up to 60% of it, which was surprising. I guess that means I need a faster CPU lol Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 Uh oh I think there is something else running because with the player not running I'm getting 55% CPU spikes now and all I have open is 2 tabs in firefox. That doesn't sound right. Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 I'm still not sure if I've figured it out. It just happened again and I had no CPU spikes before and hard drive light is not coming on, so I'm not so sure that it's related to memory. I did find out that the project playlist player was not spiking CPU by itself, cause after I closed this site I checked it again and CPU use was only around 5% Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Suspishio What processes are shown in Task Manager as spiking CPU? What is the periodicity? For example is anything set to update itself at certain times like AV software? Thing is that anything that wants or needs to run will heave out whatever's already running. The paging system itself will spike the CPU, although I note that the HDD light didn'… Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by dos_centavos [QUOTE=explodinghead75;487073]I know a need a new computer but I thought I would get a second opinion on what is causing my Firefox to stall when I'm trying to view sites (like this one). Also, it slows down on project playlist. Sometimes I see the java icon when it slows down. This can happen when I'm trying to swich tabs, but on this site for … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 [QUOTE=Suspishio;487933]What processes are shown in Task Manager as spiking CPU? What is the periodicity? For example is anything set to update itself at certain times like AV software? Thing is that anything that wants or needs to run will heave out whatever's already running. The paging system itself will spike the CPU, although I note … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 OK I did some trial and error research on CPU usage by opening task manager and found that it was using up to 50% of CPU with just project playlist running; although strangely enough it was running at less than 10% yesterday. Just now I opened only this site without project playlist and CPU usage is very low at the moment, however when I first load… Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 OK I tried to see if it was Firefox by using IE7, however I could not do this because IE7 has a different issue: It lets me log in but as soon as I try to access control panel it logs me out and says "This is for members only". I thought maybe it was privacy settings and I restored them to default but this didn't work either! This is … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 "Finally 256MB of memory for todays applications is not enough. I would recommend 1gig of memory as the starting point, however any upgrade you can make at this point will make a significant difference. I am making the assumption since you are using RDRAM memory that the mother board and CPU 1.5ghz are fine. I currently run Win2K on a Pentium … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 OK I reinstalled Firefox and I completely removed Java and still having the same problem so obviously it's not Java, cause I haven't even reinstalled it yet. Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by dos_centavos [QUOTE=explodinghead75;488642]I thought this was the same thing. I looked up the memory again and supposedly it is RAMBUS (it uses RIMMS in pairs). 256mb new was like $70. What a rip off! I could buy a refurbished Dell on ebay with 512 for $200 lol[/QUOTE] The problem with Dell is even though they are Intel Mother Boards they are specifically … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 [QUOTE=dos_centavos;488785]The problem with Dell is even though they are Intel Mother Boards they are specifically modified by Intel for Dell. IE part of what makes them different than an Intel Boxed set is they will have less features on the board - less expansion slots, less USB ports, cheaper on board audio / video chip sets etc... So your $200 … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by dos_centavos [QUOTE=explodinghead75;488944]Yes, I have 2 slots with 128mb RIMMs installed and 2 free. Thanks for warning me about the Dells; I would certainly want to put a graphics card in my next computer because I like to play games, so that is one of the problems with this Compaq; the 1.5ghz P4 is too slow for newer games, even if I upgraded the memory. I … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Suspishio You gonna buy a new PC or talk about the damn awful expensive RAMBUS? Hehe. Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 [QUOTE=Suspishio;489257]You gonna buy a new PC or talk about the damn awful expensive RAMBUS? Hehe.[/QUOTE] Well it looks like it might be a while before I can buy another PC, so I guess I'll have to be happy with World of Warcraft lol. Maybe I will check the specs for Halo 2. I think I will look on ebay for 512 mbs of RAMBUS. Hopefully it's… Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 The only thing I see on the graph is firefox.exe, averaging 30% CPU usage with project playlist running. Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by dos_centavos You say you're looking at the graph which I assume is under the performance tab in task manager. What is in the processes tab under the CPU heading? Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 [QUOTE=dos_centavos;490763]You say you're looking at the graph which I assume is under the performance tab in task manager. What is in the processes tab under the CPU heading?[/QUOTE] OK I will tell you; What is the easiet way to take a screen shot again? Because I can't copy and paste processes. There are not that many processes running now, … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 I'm confused because in task manager it had a processes tab but I don't see a CPU heading? I mean, I do at the top but this doesn't give me any additional info, except in the column which processes are using the CPU, which I already answered there is not much CPU usage besides firefox. So I'm not sure if I understand where you want me to look. Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Suspishio In Task Manager / Processes there are 4 columns, the third of which is "CPU". So: Task Manager / Processes / CPU / CPU The above is the sequence to get the list of processes ordered by CPU utilisation. The "Image Name" listed at the top is the process and in the "CPU" column is the % of CPU utilised by the … Re: Annoyed with slow/freezing while surfing Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by explodinghead75 OK in the task manager it now shows the system idle process is using 85-95% of CPU, which looks good to me. I don't see anything suspicious using it.