Applications crash when accessing files
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For some reason applications seem to have started crashing when I access a file using the open dialog. The files themselves are relativly large (> 500mb) but I have a 3.2Ghz pentium with 1Gb of RAM which I would assume could handle it. I've tried defragmenting the hard drive and scanned for viruses and spyware and searched google but most of the posts are general windows explorer 'slowness'. Windows explorer on my PC isn't slow its just when browsing via the open dialog. SuzyB If I had a better memory I would remember more.
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For some reason applications seem to have started crashing when I access a file using the open dialog. The files themselves are relativly large (> 500mb) but I have a 3.2Ghz pentium with 1Gb of RAM which I would assume could handle it. I've tried defragmenting the hard drive and scanned for viruses and spyware and searched google but most of the posts are general windows explorer 'slowness'. Windows explorer on my PC isn't slow its just when browsing via the open dialog. SuzyB If I had a better memory I would remember more.
Suzanne Boyle wrote: The files themselves are relativly large (> 500mb) but I have a 3.2Ghz pentium with 1Gb of RAM which I would assume could handle it. Your system is very high but you have a problem with open the file. In my opinion, i don't think this problem cause from the file size. Imagine if you play the video in windows media player, some file consume 600MB on the CD space. But the video still can play. Here are two recommendation that you should check it out: 1. If the file is locate on the network, try to check your system administrator for the network traffic. When the resource are accessed with a lot of connection which is overload the machine capability, you will have a problem with accessing the resource that you need. 2. If the file is located on your computer, try to check your computer for bad sector. Sometime the file is located on the bad sector of your computer hard disk. So when you try access the file, an operating system will try to read the file from bad sector which consume you a lot of time. Good luck
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Suzanne Boyle wrote: The files themselves are relativly large (> 500mb) but I have a 3.2Ghz pentium with 1Gb of RAM which I would assume could handle it. Your system is very high but you have a problem with open the file. In my opinion, i don't think this problem cause from the file size. Imagine if you play the video in windows media player, some file consume 600MB on the CD space. But the video still can play. Here are two recommendation that you should check it out: 1. If the file is locate on the network, try to check your system administrator for the network traffic. When the resource are accessed with a lot of connection which is overload the machine capability, you will have a problem with accessing the resource that you need. 2. If the file is located on your computer, try to check your computer for bad sector. Sometime the file is located on the bad sector of your computer hard disk. So when you try access the file, an operating system will try to read the file from bad sector which consume you a lot of time. Good luck
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I tried checking the drives for errors but came up with nothing. I'm going to try switching off some services and startup apps and see if that works. SuzyB If I had a better memory I would remember more.
Suzy, Check out using this Tool called TaskManagerExtension on which application is using large amount of memory or CPU Cycles. I think that would provide you some clues into the problem. TaskManager Extension: http://www.codeproject.com/system/Task_Manager_Extension.asp[^] Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Web: http://www.lavanyadeepak.tk/ I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/