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Painful Windows processes keep my system busy...
Hi,
I am using Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and I notice the following processes waking up to be very active for a while and keep my laptop busy/slow. For instance, pressing the Start button takes a couple of minutes to show the menu.
Since it's a laptop, it has a reasonably small hard-disk so it might not really take so much of resource crunching to get the file indexing right, if that's the case.
IEXPLORER.EXE (IE) and explorer.exe (windows explorer), wake up randomly and start to grill my hard-disk. Engage my laptop's resources for 95% of time.
savedump.exe (starts after a login as a result of the Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death).
Savedump.exe is a core system process. I am not able to kill it as it never seams to stop. I can always restart the explorers. Is there a way to disable savedump? I guess it's trying to save some system/info after a crash but it is very irritating.
The same goes for cidaemon.exe, a real daemon.
Thanks in advance.
I am using Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and I notice the following processes waking up to be very active for a while and keep my laptop busy/slow. For instance, pressing the Start button takes a couple of minutes to show the menu.
Since it's a laptop, it has a reasonably small hard-disk so it might not really take so much of resource crunching to get the file indexing right, if that's the case.
IEXPLORER.EXE (IE) and explorer.exe (windows explorer), wake up randomly and start to grill my hard-disk. Engage my laptop's resources for 95% of time.
savedump.exe (starts after a login as a result of the Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death).
Savedump.exe is a core system process. I am not able to kill it as it never seams to stop. I can always restart the explorers. Is there a way to disable savedump? I guess it's trying to save some system/info after a crash but it is very irritating.
The same goes for cidaemon.exe, a real daemon.
Thanks in advance.
Are you running any Antivirus stuff ??
I have found that these sometimes have a very simlar effect to the dump effect as above....
Tony
I have found that these sometimes have a very simlar effect to the dump effect as above....
Tony
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Yes, I am running the antivirus program but it doesn't start scanning so often. Plus the process are clearly IE and Windows explorer.
jjeff1, thanks for you note. I've disabled the dump creation.
Any idea on why IE and explorer start grinding my hard-disk once in a while? Perhaps IE is spying on my settings and stuff.
jjeff1, thanks for you note. I've disabled the dump creation.
Any idea on why IE and explorer start grinding my hard-disk once in a while? Perhaps IE is spying on my settings and stuff.
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Thanks for all the info.
The HDD grinding lasts for 10-15 minutes.
There have been instances of RealNetwork's RealPlayer scanning through my profile to "survey" my preferences. That's the reason why I am suspecting IE. The idea of the design for these programs (including Findfast.exe etc) is to carry out such scanning operations as fast as possible. They also, for some reason, get a higher priority. They should be given lower priority even if it takes more time for them to complete. Anyway, there's always hardware to get the blame for lack of resources.
Thanks.
The HDD grinding lasts for 10-15 minutes.
There have been instances of RealNetwork's RealPlayer scanning through my profile to "survey" my preferences. That's the reason why I am suspecting IE. The idea of the design for these programs (including Findfast.exe etc) is to carry out such scanning operations as fast as possible. They also, for some reason, get a higher priority. They should be given lower priority even if it takes more time for them to complete. Anyway, there's always hardware to get the blame for lack of resources.
Thanks.
What is happening here is the machine is shutting down improperly, then trying to make a savedump file on restart. I had this happen once and it really messed up my machine until I made it stop. In my case it was a server.