Computer challenge!

[Cronocious]

Being pretty useless at such things, i gonna ask you guys cos you always seem to have the answer

For the majority of the time my computer runs extremely fast, but like once an hour or so it will take anything up to 10 seconds for a program to open, i've looked at computer performance when this happens and i can't see anything out of the ordinary, CPU and RAM usage never get above 60%. It's not a big deal but it still bugs me cos i can't work out what causes it.

I don't have gold to offer any more like Joy so i'll give you all hugs instead

 

[Bani]

A) Google Desktop
B) MS Office Document Indexing
C) AntiVir hourly check
D) Microsoft .NET runtime compilation (shouldn't be this)
E) Windows System recovery points

 

[Cronocious]

A) Don't have
B) Don't have
C) Could be, panta antivirus is a total RAM/CPU hog
D) Er, dunno
E) Maybe...though doubt it

Bani gets 2 hugs!

/hug /hug

Not 100% sure it's any of those problems though, i get more 'non responding' programs than i think i should, tempted to blame vista but that seems too easy.

 

[Urukrama]

Hello all.

Cronosone,

you might want to take a look at your harddisk spin down time.
After a certain time your HDD will spin down (energy saving) and the heads will park for safety.

Most of your system resources and WoW are run from memory but when you start a new application or when a new WoW map needs to be loaded your HDD has to spin up to the correct rpm before it will start to actually read the data.

This can cause several seconds of delay.

> Start > Control Panel > Power options

 

[Cronocious]

Ty for taking the time to make a new account to answer me

Had a look, that time was set at 20 mins, increased it now, will see if that helps

/hug /hug

 

[Joy]

Ty for taking the time to make a new account to answer me

lol

 

[Cronocious]

Oit nothing wrong with being nice.....