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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: SuperDave on March 22, 2008, 09:13:09 PM

Title: Losing Ram
Post by: SuperDave on March 22, 2008, 09:13:09 PM

I was using Movie Maker and I had a large movie with over 600 pictures but file size was only over 7 mb. Every time I try to edit something in the movie my computer goes to 100% usage. All 2 gb's are tied up. Whenever I try to save the movie to my computer, it goes to 100% usage and just sits there although the program doesn't freeze. I switched everything to my new laptop and there doesn't appear to be any problem. Even opening MS Word makes the RAM spike to 100 %. Does anyone have any idea what's happening here.

Title: Re: Losing Ram
Post by: Broni on March 22, 2008, 09:27:17 PM

What is named in Task Manager as the main RAM taker?

Title: Re: Losing Ram
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on March 22, 2008, 10:26:23 PM

Here is the Task Manager

(http://www.fileupyours.com/files/151662/task.JPG)

Are you looking at the top row or the second row?
When using Windows Movie Maker, your CPU usage will usually go to 100%, not the PF usage or RAM usage.

Title: Re: Losing Ram
Post by: SuperDave on March 23, 2008, 07:12:18 PM

Broni, Moviemaker is the largest user at 90mb. The pf usage is 431 mb

Title: Re: Losing Ram
Post by: patio on March 23, 2008, 07:39:31 PM

Video processing is the most resource hungry thing PC's are asked to do...
I'm assuming this is XP since you didn't say.
Even though the individual pics may not be that large you're still dealing with a 7M file which Windows needs full access to...
What happens if you just go get a coffee and let it do it's thing ? ?

Title: Re: Losing Ram
Post by: SuperDave on March 23, 2008, 08:26:33 PM

All my computer info is in my signature. I was able to save it to a wmv file on my laptop and then burned it on this computer using DVD Flick which also put my CPU usage up to 100% so I tried stopping some of the processes which were running. 1 1/2 hrs. later I discovered that I had lost the audio on the burn so I had to do it over again which took over two hrs but I able to it.

Title: Re: Losing Ram
Post by: Broni on March 23, 2008, 08:33:19 PM

Can you post HijackThis log?
What is the size of HD, and free space?
What's the size of page file?

Title: Re: Losing Ram
Post by: SuperDave on March 24, 2008, 08:00:58 PM

My HDD is partitioned into 4 parts totalling 231 GB with 144 GB free space. The size of page filing is 1536mb. I get to work on the hi-jack log tomorrow.

Title: Re: Losing Ram
Post by: Carbon Dudeoxide on March 24, 2008, 10:56:52 PM

1536MB???

Go to RUN in the Start Menu. Type msconfig and press Enter
Go to the Startup tab.

List all the checked items.