XP Pro: 90% of applications go into 'not responding' state

"Adam" wrote in message
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| (Jason) wrote in message
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| Applications that go into this state from memory...
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| Internet Explorer
| Norton Anti-Virus/Internet Security
| Netscape (installed it to eliminate IE as the issue)
| Remote Desktop (sometimes this continues to work)
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| but the BBC ticker still works - this is a news ticker bar at running
| at the bottom of the screen. This never seems to hang when the PC
| goes into this state.
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| If you go into Task Manager, then all the resources are at zero or
| hardly utilised, cpu is 95+% free, loads of memory left, no lan
| traffic.
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| I am sure that if I try and start any application when the PC is in
| this state then the it will hang (after it starts).
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| "Mark BR" wrote in message
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| "Jason" wrote in message
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| Hi all,
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| I am baffled by this. Every so often, around 2-3 times a day about
| 90% of the running applications go into a 'not responding' state but
| the PC is not hung. I can still start Task Manager and launch new
| applications (although they soon hang after launch). If you wait
5-10
| minutes then everything jumps back into life - I just don't know
where
| to start troubleshooting.
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| Is there a application that can check what these processes are being
| blocked on or give me some further help on this issue.
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| My system is an AMD 64 (K8NS Pro Motherboard) with 1GB of RAM and
RAID
| 1 (mirrored pair).
|
| Please help!!!
|
| Thanks in advance,
|
| Jason
|
| Problems reading a hard disc or CD? I get a similar problem if I have
a bad
| CD in the drive.
|
| Mark BR
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| Probably anti-virus hogging all resources. This has happened to me a
| lot. Check your processes when this happens and see if your
| anti-virus is taking over much of the memory.

He already said "| If you go into Task Manager, then all the resources are
at zero or
| hardly utilised, cpu is 95+% free, loads of memory left, no lan
| traffic."

Hope I am not tempting fate by writing this but after upgrading to SP2
the issue has disappeared. No more 'not responding'
messages...Yippeee!!!!