Posted by Mr SaLTy on 24, 2000 at 11:29 PM:
In Reply to: Re: HELP. .Andy, Mr. Salty, Brian or anyone else w/ great computer experience. . posted by -Ace- on 24, 2000 at 8:32 PM:
One thing you can do to see what is sucking up cpu cycles is to use the program Wintop that is part of the win95 kerneltoys. Download it here...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WUToys/W95KernelToy/Default.asp
Move it to a temp dir and run it... it will unzip stuff.... then right click on wintop.inf and pick install. you can then run the program wintop.exe
This is a nice program that tells you ALL the process and threads that are running. you should be able to see what program is sucking up all your cpu cycles. If it shows that arcadeos is still running then its not shutting down properly.
These kernal toys are really for win95 but wintop works for win95 and win98. I'd ignore the other programs in there. This should help pinpoint your problem though.
: Thanks for the tips. Thing is that everything does run fine, until after I startup Arcadeos, then shut it down. It's how my computer reacts after I have used Arcadeos. It seems that when I quit out of Arcadeos, it doesn't really quit, even though I did shut it down.Almost like dos or Arcadeos is still there in the background, but I can't see it. After I reboot the computer, everything is fine again. Also, how do I check the dos prompt property settings? Maybe dos, for some reason, is not shutting down properly?
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: : Are you checking what loads up at startup?? Sometimes there be things loaded there you don't need that hog memory..
: : If you are using Windows98, under the start/run menu type msconfig and remove the unneccessary items from the startup tab.
: : If not Windows98, then check under your load/run section in win.ini, in the startup folder, in the registry.. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
: : Make sure you've got everything closed, and check your DOS prompt property settings.
: : Hopefully that will sort it.