XP Explorer context menu slowdown
25 Aug 2009 6:55:50 UTC
Topic 194509
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After installing Boinc, I attached(?) SETI@home. A few days later, I attached(?) Einstein@home. Now when I right-click on a file in XP Explorer, the context menu takes WAY too long to appear and sometimes does not appear at all. Picking the 'File' menu gets the same result.
I am running XP Media Center Edition Ver. 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 on a Gateway GT5220 with AMD Athlon 64x2 dual core processor 3800+ 2.01 GHz, 2.87 GB of ram.
There is 205 GB of free disk space.
Any ideas?
James
XP Explorer context menu slowdown
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You could tell your system to only use one processor for BOINC. That would leave the other one to answer immediately to other requests. The science applications run at lowest priority, but it takes a little time for them to give way, especially if the other task is of low priority too.
To achieve that, set your Computing preferences to
Gruß,
Gundolf
Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)
Download and run
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Download and run this:
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html
Run the program. Sort by "Type". Type = "Context Menu" you can disable stuff you don't want. Be careful, of course. You can always re-enable something later if it breaks.
I would suggest that you
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I would suggest that you suspend SETI and then E@H individually just to check if it's related to any particular science client or just BOINC jobs in general.
Is your SETI@HOME app using the grahics card as coprocessor (CUDA app) ??
Happy crunching
Bikeman
RE: Is your SETI@HOME app
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Nope, SETI shows no CUDA device for his host.
Gruß,
Gundolf
Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)
