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by eminent87

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Hi,

Does anyone know of a good utility that can detects application running in the background. I'm have a P3 700, 128 meg Ram with Windows 2000 pro installed and on average the system is running a maximum memory with about 2 to 10 percent CPU usage. This is pretty high considering I don't have any application running. Any information would help. Thanks.

By the way, my paging file size is 192 Meg.

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by fgarber

W2K has a pretty decent performance monitor. Go to control panel, admin tools, performance. You can pick and choose from a lot of different system characteristics to build charts of.

by bohicam1

Right click on any free area in your task bar and choose task manager. From there, click on the processes tab. This will tell you which processes are running in the background and how much memory they are consuming. Also, I would consider increasingthe pagefile to 320 MB (2 1/2 times ram). Does your system have alot of software installed? Are there alot of icons in your system tray located at the bottom right of the screen by your clock? See how many of these you can disable by right clicking on them or opening them and going into their respective property settings.
Good luck!

Mike

by eminent87

This is a newly configured machine, there's nothing in except for the Office 2000 pro. And no, there aren't any apps that load during start up. There's only speaker and NAV in the system tray. I havc also checked all the process that's running, everything looks fine there too.

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