Nick says, in relevant part: > The response to this inquiry has led me wonder some wonderings about the > folks on the list. Is it the case that: > (1) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC
You have been in the presence of both Eric and me when we have been using our PCs, and I even recall that you and I once (briefly) discussed Win7 when we first got our (respective) present PCs. > (2) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC who has had this > sort of problem (="resource leakage"?). I'm not sure I'd say I've had anything as bad a case of it as you have. However, one suggestion I haven't seen (but may have missed) is that, instead of/in addition to focussing on the Resource Monitor, you use the (still there in Win7, though somewhat gussied up) good old msconfig.exe to find--and rout out--all sorts of cruft that has been installed behind your back. For instance, if you've had occasion to install anything from HP, you will find that any number of most-of-the-time-useless, all-of-the-time-resource-intensive, programs have been co- installed silently. I have *never* found that deleting them from the Startup routine causes me problems: every one of them that is actually necessary to perform something I occasionally do (e.g., scanning with my HP All-In-One device) will load perfectly happily, and perform as adequately as HP is capable of making it perform, at the time when I choose to do the task. (Then I can, if it's causing slowdowns, kill it afterward with the Task Manager.) Much software from non-HP sources is as bad, if not worse, when it comes to sneaking undesired extras into your Startup. (Adobe is another source of such, IME.) > (3) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC who is too cheap to > pay the 200 bucks to get it fixed by an expert. Those "experts" are in the same class as the "expert audiologists" who spam the snail-mail of everybody over (apparently) 65 with come-ons for "free hearing tests" (which will, of course, diagnose the need for hearing aids), or the "expert waterline insurers" who just sent everyone in my town a snail-mail offer to buy a $150/year Waterline Insurance Policy (there is one small strip of our town, where leaking service-station gas reservoirs polluted the aquifer beyond remediation, that has "city water"--piped from the actual city, Fall River, next door; everyone else in town has private wells), or ... you get the idea. > (4) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC who is too cheap to > pay the 200 bucks to get it fixed by an expert and who also too dumb to know > how to use the resource monitor to fix it, myself. See above: the resource monitor plus msconfig (plus, if you really want to get down and dirty, services.exe, which used I think to be services.msc?) is probably all you need. In fact, I suspect that you would be better served by not trying to find out everything you need to make use of all the information that the resource monitor tells you, but rather just going to the (expanded, Win7 version of the) Task Manager, and consulting the various tabs there that tell you an often more useful proper subset of the resource monitor's information. Lee ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
