ME moving through sluudge..ideas for process-monitoring programs?

[Grakatt]

I have a 2GHz P4 here, and it has gotten the sludge, in other words, everything is made with a delay. The letters are delayed when I type, opening folders is slightly delayed..it seems there's some process hogging all the processor-juice, and I'd like to get some program that could monitor the processor's level of excitement and for what processes, so to speak. Advice away .
Thanks.

 

[Heisenberg]

You mean something besides Task Manager?

 

[Grakatt]

I guess I should have mentioned(more clearly) that this computer runs windows ME; if there's anything built into ME that allows users to see how much each process is demanding time of the processor, enlighten me.

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: Grakatt
I guess I should have mentioned(more clearly) that this computer runs windows ME; if there's anything built into ME that allows users to see how much each process is demanding time of the processor, enlighten me.

I thought ME had close to the same TM that 2k and XP did. I don't really know since I never used ME. Just so my reply's not totally useless, here's a freeware TM for ME. And please, upgrade as soon as possible.

 

[soltrain]

Yes - use a task manager program or similar and look for processes eating up RAM/CPU. And please - please, get rid of ME and get something else. Anything else. You'll be happier later.

 

[Sephiroth]

And when you upgrade, don't do the upgrade wizard.

Format your hd and then install new os.

 

[tcsenter]

I found that disabling System Restore altogether prevents the PCHealth thingy from backing up a few hundred MB in the background while creating a restore point.

 

[TheCorm]

ME is notorious for making fast processors seem slow, I believe they never did fix the issue that where if you leave it on for a length of time it uses memory blocks and then does not free them so after a while it starts relying heavily on the page file.

 

[wnied]

Gawd I wish I had a dime for everytime I heard some smeghead call WinME slow. I'd be Bill Gates rich. WinME is NO DIFFERENT than any other windows program, that being said, you need to know when you install it, what features you need and what you dont need. Then its simply a matter of installing them and running it. I have had my Windows ME workstation here at home run for two years...yes I said TWO YEARS, without a crash! That being said, the first thing I would look for is the "three finger salute," (Ctrl-Alt-Del) and see whats running at the time you do it. If your not sure what each program is, copy the ones your unsure of onto a piece of paper and look them up on either Google.com or Annoyances.org. They usually have something on programs people are unsure whether they need running or not. Also I might look for the usual suspects, i.e. Gator downloader, Real Player, Comet Cursor, NetDevil, etc etc. if you happen to find an offending program that hogs your cpu or memory time, kill it and go download Ad-Aware6 and if your comfortable with setting up registry key deleting programs, try out SpyBot Search & Destroy. I run both on my box and havent had problems with either. Just remember to keep them updated with the newest definitions and you should be able to eliminate any problem programs in no time.

~wnied~

 

[WarCon]

I agree with wnied (even though he seems to like ME, he is usually a pretty smart guy........... ).

I would do a scandisk and defrag also (might have to do it in safe mode as ME not being able to complete a defrag in normal mode is a very common complaint and not a sign of a serious problem). I have seen seriously fragmented hard drives have slow access times also.