WinVista worse than slow...............
Today I decided to relocate my email from a Win Vista machine that has ground to a halt. I booted the machine up and went away fro half an hour while it got to the point of responding to inputs from mouse or keyboard. Then I set it searching for the Profiles associated with Thunderbird mail browser and then I launched task manager to see what uses all of the processing effort. Not very much, appaerently. Search was using 2% or 3% CPU, task manager was using another 2% and everything else was using 0%. Switching to the graph view page showed 54% CPU being used. Switching back to the table still showed only 4% or 5% total. ?????
I noticed at the bottom of the task manager an option to open a monitor page, which I did. This page showed 4 graphs and some lines of stats. The memory utilisation was 65%, CPU 55%, Network 1% and something else, I forget what, but it was not maxed out. The lines of information were more revealing. One showed a few disk errors per second, another showed 200+ hard memory faults per second. No wonder it was straining and doing no work for me.
I think I'll remove the drive and syphon all my data from it outside of the original machine.
Seems to me that I have had a lucky escape. I could have lost a lot of work related stuff had the drive failed before the memory caused problems.
Rans6.....