Is your hard drive near capacity? It might not have enough swap space.
Do CTRL-ALT-DEL and bring up the Task Mgr, you can see what apps are using resources (Processes), and you can see memory usage (Performance).
It might have a lot of crapware running and using up memory. You can check to see what is being started at startup by doing Start -- Run -- then type msconfig and hit enter. You can go in and uncheck startup apps, some of which might be completely unneeded but take up resources.
--R On 2/19/2011 7:41 PM, Bill Ringgold wrote:
Corrected a few mistakes in typing [which is one reason I need the dictation program]. -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Bill Ringgold Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 7:37 PM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: [MBZ] OT - A computer problem I can't figure out > From a longtime lurker - I am spending a lot of time doing research and writing these days, and I am having a computer problem that I do not understand and hopefully one of you can offer some insight. I have an old Dell desktop computer [it was free], Pentium 4 CPU, 2.8Ghz, 2.49 GB of Ram, running a legal XP Professional with Service Pack 3. Paging file is 4,000 MB. Things go pretty well until I am using my Dragon Naturally Speaking, version 10 [Gerry inspired me] to edit and add text to my manuscript [180 pages, MS Word 2007]. It usually is fast and pretty accurate until I stop for a moment to do something else, and then it frequently starts to have long pauses, most of the time followed by a message that it is recovering from low system resources. It will freeze up for a minute and then type what I have said. If I have gotten impatient and moved using the keyboard it will type what I said a min. or two ago where ever I am then. I am well above the minimum resources for the program, and often just close it out in frustration and go back to my typing - but I do find the dictation easier until is screws up. I cannot figure out why the stalling and low system resources warning, and am assuming I have some setting that is off, but not evident to me. Anyone with ideas [presented for a moderate computer user level] to share would be greatly appreciated. Bill R _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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