brian2000boston Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Hello Everyone. I just installed a brand new copy of XP Home SP2 on a dektop computer. This drive is brand new and there are no applications on this drive, only has Windows installed. When the system boots up the red security system icon appears next to the time and states no anti virus installed. Which of course is true since we have not installed any applications. When you click on it there or the security center icon in the control panel, security center starts to load and then the computer freezes. The only way to get out of the freeze is through a hard reboot. Please let me know if anyone knows how this can be fixed. Thank you for your help.Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian2000boston Posted October 28, 2005 Author Share Posted October 28, 2005 Sorry to be a pain. I know i am new here. I am just in a big bind and need to try to get this resolved. Anything at all that may be helpful will be very appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
net_user Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 what are the specs of your pc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 Consider running "sfc /scannow" from a command prompt - also, try opening it from the control panel in safe mode to see if it opens then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlash428 Posted October 29, 2005 Share Posted October 29, 2005 Assuming those don't work, have you tried to re-install the OS? Since you haven't done anything yet (i.e. installed anything), this shouldn't be to painstaking. If you have and it still behaves the same, perhaps some files on your CD are corrupt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian2000boston Posted November 7, 2005 Author Share Posted November 7, 2005 Thank you for responding..i am sorry my delayed response. I was out on business and unable to get back to this issue. What is sfc /scannow? i am not sure what this does? The system was reloaded clean three times and still has this issue. This is a PIII 1ghtz pc. Thank you all and look forward to getting this box fixed. Anyone heard of maybe drivers causeing a conflict on the security center? Just a thoughts. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-matrix Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Looknat the bright side n2000boston you are not the only one who have that problem my XP Home XP SP1 do it all the time it a price we pay when we choose run Microsoft OS Like windowsXP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Looknat the bright side n2000boston you are not the only one who have that problem my XP Home XP SP1 do it all the time it a price we pay when we choose run Microsoft OS Like windowsXP!!!Just out of curiosity, have you looked at the name of the forum here? There are people here who run Windows XP as their primary OS constantly, and I for one don't have any problems with it.If you don't like Windows, there are always alternatives for you to try. Ubuntu, Suse, Gentoo, FC4, Slackware, FreeBSD, etc etc etc. They're all free, so you'll always get what you paid for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-matrix Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Yes i like windowsXP but it is still very unstable and useing to much ram for nothing!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Unstable? XP in itself is not unstable. The drivers and programs that are written for it are unstable.As for RAM, does it really matter all that much? For the record, I was using Ubuntu earlier today, and after opening the system monitor (the Linux equivalent of Task Manager), it said that Ubuntu had left 80MB of 512MB free..... imagine that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunsmokingman Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 (edited) I have to disagree with you on this, this is XP SP2 My ComputerAMD at 1667Ram 512Yes i like windowsXP but it is still very unstable and useing to much ram for nothing!!! Edited November 27, 2005 by gunsmokingman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-matrix Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 (edited) But how many hours are you online Daily? i am some time around the clock 7/24 but most days from 11 am to 23 pm or 2 am 15 hours every day i am a power user and i use a lot of programs and have 10-15 windows open the same time write emails and use webmail,write in wordpad and listen to Internet radio the same time and some time i also download linux distro because i want to run multi OS on the same pc. This is my PC : MS WindowsXP Home Edtion Non US Engelish or any other English language 5.1.2600 Service Pack Build 2600 Dell Dimension 4600 X86-based PC = x86 Familiy 15 Model 2 SteppingIntel~2660Mhz 512MB DDR333 Dual Channel Memory (2x256) 200GB Western Digital virtual memory1.72GB Place to sidefile 1.22GB 4xDVD+ 16xR/RW+ Compo Drive DVD and CD burner European 745 Speekers = 4 speakers and subwoofer Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Canadian version 0240 , the below you can see is all things my sound card can!!! MediaSource Player MediaSource Go! MediaSource Organizer Creative AudioHQ Creative Diagnostics Creative MiniDisc Center Creative Speaker Calibrator Creative Surround Mixer Creative WaveStudio EAX Console MediaSource DVD-Audio Player SoundFont Bank Manager Audio Stream Recorder 2 Edited November 10, 2005 by the-matrix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 I wouldn't necessarily say it uses RAM for nothing . Yes, XP uses more memory in general than previous versions of Windows - so what? Especially with SP2, it's also doing A LOT under the hood to make sure that the OS and the apps running on it stay stable, and to a lesser extent, secure.A default XP install (without third-party apps) should run very comfortably on 128MB of RAM. As soon as you add antivirus, firewalls, etc, the footprint goes up. Are these necessary? Yes. But using RAM for nothing? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-matrix Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 My Ram is now down to 81.71MB out of 512MB an virtual memory 584.15MB out of 1.72GB??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Have you run performance monitor on your machine to see what is using that memory? If you run lots of apps or third-party services, you will use lots of memory on your system.If you set up performance monitor on your box, make sure that you are using the following counters:Memory:- %Committed bytes in use; page file actually used (%)- Available Bytes; Available memory- Committed Bytes; Total bytes written into virtual memory space on physical disk- Pool Nonpaged Bytes; Kernel nonpaged memory pool usage- Pool Paged Bytes; Kernel paged memory pool usageProcess:- Handle count; for each process, shows the number of handle resources created- Working set; for each process, shows the amount of physical memory in use- Private bytes; for each process, shows the amount of memory the process has allocated to itRun a perfmon against your system for a day or two, and take a look at your averages (especially for counters under process). Note if any have high handle counts (anything over 3 or 4,000 is suspicious), and note the working set and private bytes of each process. You should be able to tell what exactly is using all of the memory on your box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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