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computer troubles
Dec. 9th, 2006 01:01 pmCyn's computer is having issues.
It started a while back. Every once in a while, like every hour or less, it would start crunching. The hard drive would go nuts, slowing everything to a crawl for a bout five minutes. (She's running XP.) We'd call up the task manager and look at what programs were using up memory, and it would be a series of them - first Weatherbug, then Photoshop, then Internet Explorer, then Spysweeper. What are they doing? I'd say they were sending out for updates if it didn't happen so often. She started keeping Weatherbug (a constantly updated weather station) and Spysweeper shut down. When she did this, the crunching seemed to have stopped.
Can someone tell us what's going on?
It started a while back. Every once in a while, like every hour or less, it would start crunching. The hard drive would go nuts, slowing everything to a crawl for a bout five minutes. (She's running XP.) We'd call up the task manager and look at what programs were using up memory, and it would be a series of them - first Weatherbug, then Photoshop, then Internet Explorer, then Spysweeper. What are they doing? I'd say they were sending out for updates if it didn't happen so often. She started keeping Weatherbug (a constantly updated weather station) and Spysweeper shut down. When she did this, the crunching seemed to have stopped.
Can someone tell us what's going on?
