Hi everyone.

Just a quick one.

When I switch on my PC everything goes fine. No problemo.

When the screen has finished loading, (everything there as it should be), my hard drive is still going ten to the dozen. I take it the PC is still loading something.

Is there any way to find out if it needs to be loading whatever it is loading?

If there are things that are not needed, how do I stop them?

Thank you in advance for your help.

ATB Gary.

how many processes have you got running press Ctrl-Alt- Delete

how much RAM have you got?

brain_damage, thanks for replying.

Sorry for lack of information. In a bit of a hurry last night.

There are 39 processes running.

I have 384 MB of RAM.

OS:- Win XP (obviously) Pro. Ver 2002. Service pack 2.
Processor: Intel Pentium III, 797MHz.

I hope this is enough info.

ATB Gary.

I should imagine upping the RAM may help,

the hard drive is used as virtual memory when the RAM is not enough for the processes being run.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/virtual-memory.htm

The computer in question is a Hewlet Packard, Vectra. Apparently, they use a certain type of memory, which I can not afford. So, I use standard sticks which the PC doesn't completely read.

Does that make sense?

I have two HDD.

The C: drive total size is 9.39 GB with 2.45 GB free space.

The D: drive total size is 9.55 GB with 4.87 GB free space.

I have been moving photographs from C: to D: to make space. I have also started to save files to D:.

ATB Gary.

I've just looked up at crucial and most of the Vectras can only take up to 512MB RAM

if you want to move large amounts of data you realy need a faster chip and more RAM

Jeff.

Thanks for your time and expertise.

ATB Gary.

Originally Posted by Gary

Jeff.

Thanks for your time and expertise.

ATB Gary.

No problem at all that's why we're here to help as much as we can