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page file usage is at full
Name: brmarti5 Date: February 8, 2004 at 20:23:26 Pacific OS: win xp CPU/Ram: amd athlon 512 ram
Comment:
the page file usage for my computer is about 90% full, yet the CPU usage acts fine, even when running one or two programs. It is slowing the computer massively, and ive checked for viruses using spybot and symantec. any ideas?
Name: ... Date: February 8, 2004 at 21:14:28 Pacific
Reply:
page file is only used when you run out of physical memory. How big is your page file?
Go to task manager, click on the "Processes" tab, and then click on "memory usage" to sort it by that column...see which programs are taking a big chunk of your memory.
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Response Number 2
Name: brmarti5 Date: February 9, 2004 at 12:42:08 Pacific
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nothing is taking much of a chunk, im only runnign at bout 4% CPU usage right now, but the page file is almost full. My harddrive is a 60 gb, and im only using 15gb.
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Response Number 3
Name: Ace McFly Date: February 13, 2004 at 07:36:48 Pacific
Reply:
I had been having the same problem. Check your desktop folders. My computer had saved several months worth of deletions, about a two gigs worth, in my MY DOCUMENTS folder. I re deleted them and life has been good again.
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