Strange Phenomenon With My Computer

CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">After extracting large files</div> For some reason after (what topic says) my computer responds slowly, however games still run just fantastic for me. Whats the deal?


I have 512 DDR400 pc2700 ram
Athlon XP 2700
WinXP pro(completely updated)
Zero Spyware or Viruses...
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    Are you running more than one drive for storage?
    (Some people have a seperate drive for Windows
    and then throw all their other programs etc onto a
    seperate drive incase something goes wrong.)

    What speed is the drive?

    Are you running NTFS or FAT32?

    Have you done any System clean-up's
    or Disk Defrag's recently? (I've found that Defrags
    are very useful and run them religiously every 3/4 weeks.)

    When you say "large file" - what size are we talking here?
    600+ meg Half-Life 2 E3 footage or bigger?



    Sorry about all the questions, 1: they might help narrow
    a solution down, 2: I haven't slept <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    I defrag regularly,

    NTFS single drive, 7200 RPM. Large file, usually anything over 300meg does this.
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  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    You have to be more precise. I'm eating donuts, so don't make me.

    For all I know, you could have a skynet virus.
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  • EEKEEK Join Date: 2004-02-25 Member: 26898Banned
    Isn't this the 3rd time it's gone to **** for you?
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  • CreepieCreepie Join Date: 2003-02-19 Member: 13734Members
    It's probably a P<i>roletariat</i> Computer. Laugh. I nearly did.
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  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    lmao. na, it's probably menshavsk type C
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  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-EEK+Aug 2 2004, 05:01 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (EEK @ Aug 2 2004, 05:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Isn't this the 3rd time it's gone to **** for you? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    First time was my fault, second time was a crappy IDE cable that came with my mobo, and this time, well, the machine itself operates perfect for games but after extracting large files as I said windows bogs down to nothing


    Theres 99% system idle use for the CPU, maybe 200MB of RAM (if i got all the pretties on for XP) This is reoccuring, after formats, etc.
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  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    edited August 2004
    This happened to me quite frequently. A virus or some mishap of a program would always hide itself in the system32 folder, and whenever I tried to delete it, for it was boggind my cpu down, it would repeatedly say, "...in use..."

    Even formatting it didn't help, so I had to unplug the network, and put on the firewall from there.

    I don't know, but I had much the same problem with the cpu cranking up to 99 percent.
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  • im_lostim_lost TWG Rule Guru Join Date: 2003-04-26 Member: 15861Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I don't know, but I had much the same problem with the cpu cranking up to 99 percent.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You misunderstood. He said that he had that much idle, not that much in use.
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  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    Sorry, that's what I meant; as you can see early morning posts of mine are kind of o-f-f.
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  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    Sorry, that's what I meant; as you can see early morning posts of mine are kind of o-f-f.
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  • StarchyStarchy Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15727Members, Constellation
    You have Windows.
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  • FireStormFireStorm Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7390Members
    Just remove the sputnik and it'll work fine <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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