Crashing

[polpotskater]

My computer will crash randomly. But when it does i cannot press ctrl alt del or anything. I just have to manually turn off computer and then reboot. my OS is Windows ME

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by polpotskater on 01/05/02 23:54.</FONT></P>

[reghakr]

Here are some tips for ME:

First go to Start&gt;Settings&gt;ControlPanel&gt;Automatic Updates and turn off automatic updates. choose I will update my computer manually.

Then right-click on the icons in the tray area, open each, go through the options to turn off the "tray" or "run at startup" feature.

For the others, go to Start&gt;Run, type msconfig. Leave systray, scan registry, Load Power Profile,*StateMgr, your virus scanner and firewall if you have one.

Go to Start&gt;Run, type notepad c:\windows\win.ini and check for programs loading here:
[windows]
load=
run=

Open Explorer and navigate to c:\windows\temp and delete all files here. Empty the Recycle Bin

Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools&gt;InternetOptions, click the Delete Files and Clear History buttons. Click the Settings button and choose a reasonable size for the temporary internet files directory. i'd suggest 40MB for a 56K connection, as little as 10MB for cable or DSL.

Close all tray applications and hit Alt_Ctl_Del and end task on all items except for explorer and systray, disable your screensaver, then run scandisk, then defrag.

If you don't know what an entry is or what it does, post back.

If you're using Microsoft Office, look up this Knowledge Base article to kill the Find Fast Indexer

<a target="_blank" href=http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q158705>How to Disable the Find Fast Indexer</a>

reghakr

[polpotskater]

i have no idea what an entry is

[reghakr]

polpotskater,

I was referrring to the items you find listed under the startup tab of msconfig and the programs after the load= or run= lines in the system.ini.

If you don't recognize the names (entries), we could help you out identifing it.

reghakr