At the moment the HD is 32% free, freshly defragged. The machine has an 80 GB SATA HD with a 50 GB Windows partition and a 30DB Ubuntu partition. I'll do the checks you suggested and try out the dictation in the morning. Thanks - Bill R
-----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Rich Thomas Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 7:49 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - A computer problem I can't figure out 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 > _______________________________________ 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
