Sunday, July 10, 2011

Performance: HP Desktop Disk and Memory Usage

Still difficulties with Windows 7, HP Pavilion Desktop--timeouts on all browsers, Windows file renames often send the darn thing into paralysis.

What's up with that?  Some lines of investigation:

From Start, Control Panel, Review your computer's status, View performance information. Got a lowest score of 3.6 for graphics memory.  Maybe the two huge screens are hindering performance?

Also from the Chrome Wench, Tools, Task Manger (shows active pages and Plugins), click "Stats for Nerds" to see memory usage for the other browsers too. How does it know what's outside of itself? Hmmm...

....so of course, need to download more utilities
WinDirStat (why do I keep thinking ManBearPig?) is a great filesize visualizer.


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