hey guys
hope u can help me on this one.. I have an Acer travelmate 4672, Core Duo 1,66, 80 gb hard drive and untill last week 1,5 gb RAM (PC2 4200). And I'm running windows XP SP2
So last week I upgraded the memory, so I now have 1x2gb 667 Mhz RAM, before I had 1x1gb and 1x512mb, both 533 mhz.
I don't know if the RAM upgrade has anything to do with my problem, but it seems like it started after the upgrade.
One problem is that it takes up to 5-6 minutes to shut down. Some times when I push the power button (which I have configured as to hibernate) it takes a few minutes before anything happens. When I shut down windows the blue screen saying thad windows is shutting down, stays for at long time, before eventually shutting down.
I've read a few posts on this forum and others, that this could be because windows is deleting the page file, and I checked the registry key that should have the value 0, so the page file isn't deleted at shutdown. The value was 0, so it seems to me that the page file isn't being deleted.
Other thing, which I again don't know if it can be related to the RAM upgrade, is that I windows hangs every time I try to extract files from a zip og rar archive. I've tried unistalling WinRAR and used Bitzipper, to try another program, but it's still the same. When it happens, the explorer window which I was trying to extract the files to (drag and drop) hangs, and I can't terminate the explorer.exe process via task manager. I have to restart windows to get things working normal again.
One solution would be to format the computer and start with a fresh install, but I just formattet for a month ago. I'm running AVG antivirus, Zone Alarm firewall and I've run AdAware and Spybot S&D to clean, but it didn't find anything.
If you have any ideas, please post them, I would be very grateful to solve this without having to format the hard drive.
Rafaman
hope u can help me on this one.. I have an Acer travelmate 4672, Core Duo 1,66, 80 gb hard drive and untill last week 1,5 gb RAM (PC2 4200). And I'm running windows XP SP2
So last week I upgraded the memory, so I now have 1x2gb 667 Mhz RAM, before I had 1x1gb and 1x512mb, both 533 mhz.
I don't know if the RAM upgrade has anything to do with my problem, but it seems like it started after the upgrade.
One problem is that it takes up to 5-6 minutes to shut down. Some times when I push the power button (which I have configured as to hibernate) it takes a few minutes before anything happens. When I shut down windows the blue screen saying thad windows is shutting down, stays for at long time, before eventually shutting down.
I've read a few posts on this forum and others, that this could be because windows is deleting the page file, and I checked the registry key that should have the value 0, so the page file isn't deleted at shutdown. The value was 0, so it seems to me that the page file isn't being deleted.
Other thing, which I again don't know if it can be related to the RAM upgrade, is that I windows hangs every time I try to extract files from a zip og rar archive. I've tried unistalling WinRAR and used Bitzipper, to try another program, but it's still the same. When it happens, the explorer window which I was trying to extract the files to (drag and drop) hangs, and I can't terminate the explorer.exe process via task manager. I have to restart windows to get things working normal again.
One solution would be to format the computer and start with a fresh install, but I just formattet for a month ago. I'm running AVG antivirus, Zone Alarm firewall and I've run AdAware and Spybot S&D to clean, but it didn't find anything.
If you have any ideas, please post them, I would be very grateful to solve this without having to format the hard drive.
Rafaman
