My PC does "mini-freezes"

i dunno where to post this so please move it to where it belong thanks

there is no other way to explaine it then mini freezes i can tell it does it because when i move the mouse around it freezes in a spot for about a second and keeps doing it till i reboot and it goes away for a while (about a day or two)


if you need any more info other then that please tell me i'll do my best to get it

 

is there anything else beseide ram and Op system you need to know?


and i'm not a good guy when it comes to finding info... if you guys are able to please tell me where i can find the other info that may be needed

 

maybe true... but i have no funds to do anything... so it seems that it's the ram that is the cause of it?

 

If you don't have enough physical RAM or can't afford to buy more (older RAM is becoming very costly), increase your pagefile to between 2048 and 4092MB, reboot and defrag. Ensure you are using the latest Java version (I'm assuming this is what the game uses + uninstall all old versions > JavaRA FTW ^^) and reboot frequently.

Ensure that XP is only booting with the minimum processes to enable security and functionality, any more and you are wasting RAM and other resources before you begin using anything.

For a broadly accurate summation of Windows Swapfile usage and optimising, see Perti.co.il or read the 5 posts by Mark Russinovitch for the full Monty (warning: not for the faint-hearted ^_^).

 

Good find satrow I haven' seen the guru "Mark Russinovich" around for a long time and was wondering where he had gone.

I concur with above you may be exhausting "Physical Memory" leading to system lagging or lock up responses.

If you open Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and goto to Performance tab how many Processes are you running? Some people have an incredible amount of "non-essential" background processes running that take system resources. A lot of the time these are updaters or programs that can be readily accessed by the Start Menu and "activated when needed" instead of taking up system resources unnecessarily.

Although you meet the current minimum system requirements for XP:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314865

using just the bare minimum specs is like have a horse with "hobbles" on it, it will crawl and struggle to perform at any affective or productive rate.