Radioactive Frog 0 Posted March 6, 2003 im running xp pro and every now and again the system will hang for 30secs or so, i can switch between programs, but cannot do anything on the programs?!! this is becoming a bit of a pain ! any ideas? ive run scandisc and NAV Thanks Share this post Link to post
freddy 0 Posted March 6, 2003 Can you open Task Manager when this happens...or have it open ready...to see what process is using CPU time during this 30 seconds? As it's a regular occurance that happens for 30 seconds or so you should be able to narrow it down if there is some background process causing excessive CPU usage. Quote: Are you running System Restore there &/or indexing service actively? Alec, what exactly does the indexing service do? I think I've turned it off anyway. Am I right in thinking it just speeds up searching the harddisk, by caching locations of files etc. or something like that? Share this post Link to post
freddy 0 Posted March 7, 2003 Well thats cleared that up, thanks It was definately worth turning it off. FREDDY Share this post Link to post