Hi Nick. Tried to send you a message on your e-mail. I don't have time to go through your spam thingy. Sorry. On Feb 7, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Eric Charles wrote:
> 1) I use a PC, because I am cheap and lazy. > > 2) This sort of thing is a ubiquitous problem on PCs, and is sometimes a > problem for Macs depending the exact operating system (but I've never seen it > as bad on a Mac as it usually is on a PC). > > 3) I would be suspicious of a store-bought expert helping with this... and as > has been suggested, an expert friend should be cheaper (though not > necessarily free, as it is time consuming). > > 4) I know how to use the resource monitor, and often find that it is not > telling me what I want to know. The long list of Processes often does not > seem to account for what the Performance screen tells me is the CPU Usage and > Physical Memory Usage. I've never really figured out why this discrepancy > occurs... but I haven't tried hard to find out. It is certainly annoying. > > As suggested, a complete wipe will fix the problem. I have rarely done > this... but usually am thinking about getting a new computer at about the > time the problem is annoying enough that I would consider a wipe... and > switching to a new computer is pretty much the same thing as wiping the old > one. If you do not use too many programs, a wipe might be relatively easy. > > Also worth noting: Depending on your computing needs, $200 is a significant > fraction of the cost of a new machine. > > Eric > > > -------- > Eric Charles > Assistant Professor of Psychology > Penn State, Altoona > > From: "Nicholas Thompson" <[email protected]> > To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 2:57:32 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Windows Resource Monitor > > Thanks owen. I did lots of stuff LIKE that, but may not have recognized a > helping hand when it was proffered. With your reassurance I will plunge back > in. > > 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 > (2) I am the only person on this list that owns a PC who has had this sort > of problem (=”resource leakage”?). > (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. > (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. > > > N > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 10:25 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Windows Resource Monitor > > Nick: did you google: > how to use the windows resource monitor > .. it turned up lots and lots of info. > > However, the classic solution to a clean machine is to literally start over: > wipe the disk *after* making a complete copy of its contents to a cheap disk, > and drag stuff back aboard as you need it. > > This is augmented by Dropbox: if you don't have it now, you may want to > consider it as a backup of your working stuff, stuff that you can't replace > from other sources and is data you actually created. It also makes it > trivial to see/work on the files from any of several computers. > > Then the "lets start over" approach is much much easier. Clean system with > one folder of your working repository. > > I'm always amazed just how zippy a new system is. > > I keep a log of all installs I do, you may start doing that .. it makes it > easy to know what you may need to reinstall if you go the clean install > route. And what may need removing 'cause you don't use it anymore. > > -- Owen > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Nicholas Thompson > <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for all your suggestions. Most I actually understood, for which I am > enormously grateful. > > I have the habit of burying my most important question under a lot of verbal > rubble, so I want to ask it again in case you missed it. Is there any guide > to the Resource Monitor that is more forthcoming than the help files that > come with it? Stuff like what the various charts and graphs and numbers are > telling me. > > N > > > ============================================================ > 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 > > ============================================================ > 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 ============================================================ 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
