System hangs?

WinXp Home, SP2.

Not sure if its system, hardware or software so will start here. Feel free to
move if necessary.

This may happen 5/10 times a day.
Occasionally my system will "hang" for no known reason.
Examples: using the mouse on the window scroll bar arrow to scroll down (or
up), scrolling fine then for no reason it will stop scrolling.
Re-clicking the mouse will start it scrolling again.

Example2: When loading a program (any program) it will stop and require a
mouse movement or mouse click to get the system going again.

It appears to be like its losing the signal or running into a barrier that can be
overcome by a mouse click, or mouse movement or clicking on a clear spot
(de-activating the active window and then re-making it the active window).

I have installed a new mouse, got rid of the wireless one but the problem
still occurs. The system works fine except for this random problem and I'm
not even sure where to begin checking.....

Suggestions?
Thanks,
savagcl

 

Addition:

I looked in the event viewer and didnt see anything specific. I cleared the
event, security, system logs and will keep a watch. When it happens again, i'll
ckeck the logs and see whats there (will post here unless i can find a fix).

savagcl

 

System Hangs ?

Hi,
you have to see if some programs are running in background ! that EAT more of your RAM and make your system for "Optimized performance for application "


Regards

 

ghemant,

Here is what the startup (msconfig) shows and also the Task Manager.

Startup utility:
Acronis Scheduler2 service
AVG7_CC
AVG7_EMC
AVG7_Run
CHotkey (mHotKey.exe Multimedia Keyboard driver)
gcasServ (MSAntispy)
IntelliPoint (Mouse)
ShowWnd (????)
TrueImageMonitor.exe
Zone Labs Client

Following is from Task Manager:
CPu usage = 0 to 2%
PF Usage = 243MB

Totals:
Handles = 7548
Threads = 500
Processes = 38

Physical Memory:
Total = 1030776
Available = range from 691300 to 691520
System Cache = 363592

Commit Charge:
Total = 248796
Limit = 2478360
Peak = 447684

Kernel Memory:
Total = 80820
Paged = 46380
Nonpaged = 34464

I dont think a lack of memory is the problem.

savagcl

 

Suggest you uncheck the following in the startup tab in msconfig:
Acronis Scheduler2 service
CHotkey
IntelliPoint
ShowWnd
TrueImageMonitor.exe

I use the logitek wireless keyboard and mouse and neither they or the monitor require drivers (although they are accompanied by driver CDs). Windows has its own scheduling service. and the other programs are not necessary at startup.

If this eliminates your problem, fine. If not, you can easily turn back on any for which you feel a need.

Addn: Have found that computers full of unnecessary files in the various temporary folders also have the slowing problem, which can act like your description because they seem to have to search through more stuff each time a program asks for information. So make sure your disk is as clean as you can get it.

 

Hi Clif,

Good advice by sparrow - turn those off - see if you get the problem, and if that does eliminate the symptom, then turn on one by one until you hit the culprit.

Regards - Charles

 

Hi Folks,

I did as Sparrow suggested except for the intellipoint. I used to have a
wireless mouse/keyboard but was burning up to many batteries. Went back to
the intellipoint mouse but kept the wireless keyboard. The hangs was
happening before all this tho.

Will monitor what effect Sparrows suggestions have for a while. If still doing it,
will continue this post (if fixed, will still post results).

thanks,
savagcl

 

Hi,
do as
My Computer -> properties -> Advance -> Performance -> and then "Adjust for Best Performance" tooo
sir , open Wor , power point or excel and see the memory occupation and then minimize it and see whats now in memory usage , you will see the difference between ,the same as while you have a program launched with System Starup it has a memory occupation and it will stays in your scratch memory so its better to remove those programs from startup.


Regards

 

ghemant,

My performance setting is in the control panel\system\advanced. I changed it
to the performance setting.

I dont have word, excel or powerpoint resident on my system. Needed those
for work, not needed for retirement!

thanks,
savagcl