Win XP hanging when I go to "My Computer"

June 20, 2008

Our XP workstation running SP 2 has started slowing significantly since the

last update. Today it hangs when we go to My Computer, but it doesn't when I

launch other software. Last week it started having difficulty with 51% memory

usage and I was unable to determine what was taking up the memory.

We have 4GB memory on the system, running a 500GB OS drive on a P4 Duo Core

2 system. This workstation serves as our peer-to-peer file server and has

three data drives all 500 GB as well as an outboard 500GB Maxtor drive for

backups. We have had a number of problems with this machine - including hard

drive suddenly failing for no reason. Could all this be related? Thanks in

advance for any advice provided.

June 22, 2008

Re: Win XP hanging when I go to "My Computer"

"Susan Trott" <Susan Trott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:8D653D94-9DDB-4712-B57E-8C7D3315CD9A@microsoft.com...

> Our XP workstation running SP 2 has started slowing significantly since

> the

> last update. Today it hangs when we go to My Computer, but it doesn't when

> I

> launch other software. Last week it started having difficulty with 51%

> memory

> usage and I was unable to determine what was taking up the memory.

> We have 4GB memory on the system, running a 500GB OS drive on a P4 Duo

> Core

> 2 system. This workstation serves as our peer-to-peer file server and has

> three data drives all 500 GB as well as an outboard 500GB Maxtor drive for

> backups. We have had a number of problems with this machine - including

> hard

> drive suddenly failing for no reason. Could all this be related? Thanks in

> advance for any advice provided.

Try running hardware diagnostics programs.

http://www.tufftest.com/ (free/no cost version is available)

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Allan

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