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Windows Pausing Frequently
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Windows Pausing Frequently
Monday, May 14, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Posted by Bill Hardwick
(2 messages posted)
Recently, Windows XP (Pro) began pausing very frequently. Most often in Firefox,
but also in other applications. It freezes about every 30 seconds, for about 3 seconds
at a time, and mostly while typing or after clicking a link or opening an application.
During this 3 second period, nothing can be clicked or typed. I have run a virus
scan with Norton 2002, a spyware scan with Windows Defender and Ad-Aware (Personal).
I have defragmented and fixed errors with CHKDSK as well.
Can anyone help? This is quite possibly one of the most annoying things imaginable.
I can post a hijack this log if necessary.
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re: Windows Pausing Frequently
Monday, May 14, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Posted by DocCrain
(786 messages posted)
This may be the dreaded ctfmon.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1167888467
Neurons that fire together, wire together.
(Posted with Opera)
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re: Windows Pausing Frequently
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 12:07 am
Posted by goNucks02
(73 messages posted)
My older computer was almost exactly the same. I defragged, scanned for viruses,
did cleanups, reg scans, reg defrags, uninstalled unnecessary programs and had tons
of free space. I also tried to play with the paging file to see if that changed anything.
Nothing changed for me. However, after a reformat it stopped freezing like that.
I don't know why, but if it's annoying you enough, you could try backing up important
data and reformating.
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re: Windows Pausing Frequently
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 5:20 am
Posted by Bill Hardwick
(2 messages posted)
Thanks for the help. I'm going to try the ctfmon thing when I get home today, and
if it doesn't solve the problem I'll probably just do a clean install. My computer
needs one anyway...
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