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john-mi

03-27-2008 18:36:38




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Every day at about 3PM I have something that runs on my computer that about brings it to a stop. Is there any way to tell whats running or scanning. Its windows xp system on a Dell computer. Thanks for any help you can give me.




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Pooh Bear

03-28-2008 09:02:04




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to RICK165, 03-27-2008 18:36:38  

Allan In NE said: (quoted from post at 06:25:56 03/28/08) Why do you defrag every day?

Every 6 weeks to two months ought to be more than enough.

Allan


I used to do a lot of video work on my computer.

It speeds things up to have a freshly defragged hard drive.

Especially helpful when transferring VHS tapes to the computer.

I set up my defragger program to run 6am-10am because

I am usually not at my computer at that time.

Pooh Bear

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Dan-IA

03-28-2008 07:12:02




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to john-mi, 03-27-2008 18:36:38  
automatic updates are 3pm by default. that's my vote.



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Mattlt

03-28-2008 03:42:42




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to john-mi, 03-27-2008 18:36:38  
...and while you're in the Control Panel, check for an entry called Scheduled Tasks. There might be something there as well.



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Pooh Bear

03-27-2008 21:15:31




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to john-mi, 03-27-2008 18:36:38  
Sometime when your computer is running fine,

right click on the task bar and select Task Manager.

Click on the Processes tab and make note of all the running processes.

Then when the computer slows down, repeat the above,

and this time look for an extra process running.

My computer slows to a crawl everyday between 6am and 10am.

That is when I have my defragger program scheduled to run.

Pooh Bear

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Allan In NE

03-28-2008 04:25:56




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to Pooh Bear, 03-27-2008 21:15:31  
Why do you defrag every day?

Every 6 weeks to two months ought to be more than enough.

Allan



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onefarmer

03-27-2008 20:53:55




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to john-mi, 03-27-2008 18:36:38  
Check your antivirus settings. I'd bet it is set to do a scan at that time. It will definitely bring the system to a slow crawl. Just reset it to 5am once a week.

If your on dialup and windows is set to update, it might slow it down but shouldn't take up that much. Look in start>settings>control panel>system>updates tab for this setting.



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Howard H.

03-27-2008 19:30:33




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to john-mi, 03-27-2008 18:36:38  

Also, when it does that hit "ctrl-alt-del" at the same time to bring up the task manager...

Then click on the processes tab, and then the CPU heading to sort the processes into who is hogging the most CPU power.

It will be bouncing around, but it will quickly show you the name of the task that is causing the problem. It won't always be the top process - a lot of time it will be one bouncing around in positions 2-5 or so - but it will be causing huge amounts of disk activity - which cause the PC to slow down.

Howard

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Howard H.

03-27-2008 19:26:03




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to john-mi, 03-27-2008 18:36:38  

Sounds like it could be an antivirus scan kicking on...

What are you running for AV?

It will most likely have its own internal scheduler...


Howard



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Bendee.

03-27-2008 19:20:50




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to john-mi, 03-27-2008 18:36:38  
Start...control panel... system...automatic updates.. should have a time.. mine is 8pm.
See if yours is 3pm if so change it.



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Gene-AL

03-27-2008 19:18:10




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to john-mi, 03-27-2008 18:36:38  
Look in: Start> Control Panel> Automatic Updates and see if updates are scheduled to run at that time. You also have some other choices. Is your computer clock possibly off by 12-hours AM/PM?



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petetx

03-27-2008 18:58:40




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 Re: OT Computer Question in reply to john-mi, 03-27-2008 18:36:38  
check your windows auto update settings



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