[Ham-Computers] Problem with XP

[john]

Suggesstion INCREASE to MAX RAM . When it fills up it crashes . Microsoft published a big O/S book Should be cheap on e/bay or amazon Rea; cheap these days 


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From: "Robert Downs via Ham-Computers" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net> 
To: Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2017 2:33:06 AM 
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Problem with XP 

This is a long shot, but you never know what someone else might know unless 
you ask. 

I still run XP on two machines because two critical programs won't run on 
anything later. 

When the machine boots up, there are several instances of svchost.exe 
loaded. Sometime within the past week or two, I noticed that one of them had the 
CPU utilization running at 50% all of the time. And Mem Usage was under 
10,000 K 

As the machine goes through the boot process, right after after you can 
call up the Task Manager, it starts off with the CPU utilization flickering 
from 0 to 4 or 5%. And the Mem Usage under 10,000 K. Over the next few 
minutes, both figures climbed until finally reaching 50% and a little over 150 Mb. 
Sitting here with Task Manager running as I type this, I see that Mem 
Usage is currently at 152,780 K. When I started writing, it was a little lower. 

Figuring that I had nothing to lose, I ended the process and everything 
seemed to keep working. Until I tried to run our accounting system, which is a 
dBase 5 program. The program loaded OK and everything worked at first 
until I tried to open the inventory database to see what condition I had said 
that a piece of radio gear was in. Whereupon the program locked up and it 
took a three-finger salute to shut it down. So I concluded that this 
particular instance has something to do with running MSDOS. 

Does anyone have any idea as to what is screwed up, and how to fix it? 

Robert Downs - Houston 
wa5cab dot com (Web Store) 
MVPA 9480 
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