it help - processes

[London Calling]

when the old pc really slows down and some function stops, go to task manager, today I noticed that cpu usage was reaching 95-100% but we were only running outlook.

Whilst looking at processes there were a right range with one iexplore.exe taking up 489 processes and a huge amount of memory.

Are these processses all essential, good or are there some bad mothers I should know about,

love

LC

 

[steward 433]

What K is ielore.exe running as mine is only 317,568

 

[London Calling]

What K is ielore.exe running as mine is only 317,568

after closing down outlook its now down to 37,oook but then its not running at the mo>

 

[Uncle C]

Just recently I have had the same problem with iexplore.exe. It seems to running multiple times and when I close the computer down they refuse to close automatically and each one has to be closed individually. Would love us to find a solution.

 

[steward 433]

Have you had any problems with anything other than Outlook?

Have you done the usual defrag and disc cleanup also i found outlook was crap if you had more thana hundred or so messages in your folders?

 

[steward 433]

Just recently I have had the same problem with iexplore.exe. It seems to running multiple times and when I close the computer down they refuse to close automatically and each one has to be closed individually. Would love us to find a solution.

That isn't something i have had a problem with but this computer runs Vista so?

 

[steward 433]

LC my outlook is running at about 8,800K that's all.

 

[London Calling]

outlook.exe 40,000?

 

[steward 433]

outlook.exe 40,000?

That's well high. Do you have hundreds of saved mail etc?

 

[London Calling]

That's well high. Do you have hundreds of saved mail etc?

yes ms LC keeps everyting including ebay buys etc?

 

[steward 433]

yes ms LC keeps everyting including ebay buys etc?

Auto archive all the items over a month old (you will still be able to retrieve them but they don't affect cpu usage.

You will find it in tools, mailbox cleanup, auto archive.

 

[London Calling]

Auto archive all the items over a month old (you will still be able to retrieve them but they don't affect cpu usage.

You will find it in tools, mailbox cleanup, auto archive.

thanks for the tip, but b4 i do it, where does it all go and how easy is it to find again?

 

[Dave the OAP]

backup the system

get hold of a copy of ghost and ghost the machine

gdisk it

reload the ghost image


voila

 

[steward 433]

thanks for the tip, but b4 i do it, where does it all go and how easy is it to find again?

A folder called archive which dosen't open when you open outlook go into your folders list and just click on archive.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I would suggest shutting down your system, smashing the computer into as many pieces as possible, mailing it to Bill Gates and then purchasing a super sexy slender Apple product.

 

[Marc]

for old PCs do a google search for the running processes and see which ones are pointless, run msconfig and stop them loading up from the start or go to the Admin tools and do it via Services.msc.
all very technical but can boost old PC speed by 50% in some cases!