kevincompton
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I am trying to help a friend with his computer, he told me it was having short freezing issues. When i found it has AOL I had a feeling this would be the cause.
Now what its doing is when a couple of applications are open it will quite frequently for intervals of about 15 to 20 seconds freeze, that is the mouse will stop moving. Now the thing is that this computer is very well maintained and rather new. 512MB, pentium 4 proccessor, fully updated and defraged.
I have 3 theories and I want your advice if you have experience with either of these circumstances.
1. AOL is the cause. It seems to always have things running in the backround. How can I tell if its taking too much memory? How can i diagnose if AOL is indeed the problem. And if so can i fix this or will I need to unistall aol entirely?
2. He has an optical mouse. Perhaps the freezing is really just the mouse freezing due to some signal failure? However no matter how close we put the recieving unit the problem still occurs. Also the problem only seems to occur 10 minutes or so after booting up when several things are going on. I noticed images really make this happen, so this mouse alternative i feel is unlikely.
3. Although the computer does have a lot of memory, perhaps its still not enough? How can i tell based on what he does with it?
He only uses it for running aol functions such as chatting and e-mailing and he sends images also.
Ok so thats it. If you can help at all please give me your opinion or a good way to diagnose. Thanks!
Now what its doing is when a couple of applications are open it will quite frequently for intervals of about 15 to 20 seconds freeze, that is the mouse will stop moving. Now the thing is that this computer is very well maintained and rather new. 512MB, pentium 4 proccessor, fully updated and defraged.
I have 3 theories and I want your advice if you have experience with either of these circumstances.
1. AOL is the cause. It seems to always have things running in the backround. How can I tell if its taking too much memory? How can i diagnose if AOL is indeed the problem. And if so can i fix this or will I need to unistall aol entirely?
2. He has an optical mouse. Perhaps the freezing is really just the mouse freezing due to some signal failure? However no matter how close we put the recieving unit the problem still occurs. Also the problem only seems to occur 10 minutes or so after booting up when several things are going on. I noticed images really make this happen, so this mouse alternative i feel is unlikely.
3. Although the computer does have a lot of memory, perhaps its still not enough? How can i tell based on what he does with it?
He only uses it for running aol functions such as chatting and e-mailing and he sends images also.
Ok so thats it. If you can help at all please give me your opinion or a good way to diagnose. Thanks!
