On 08 Sep 2005 19:13:10 GMT, Chakolate
<chakolateDeathToSpammers@gmail.com> wrote:

Martin 53N 1W <ml_news@ddnospamddml1dd.co.uk.dd> wrote in news:Ry%Te.2617
$st1.767@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net:

Mmmm... f/fgeorge likely knows this one better:

On some versions of Windows, there are certain critical tasks that have 
the same low priority as s@h. These then slow up everything until the 
competing task (s@h in this case) is paused.

 From distant memory... I think they were to do with MS Office and/or 
File Explorer, or the menus. Sorry, too long back to remember the exact 
parts of Windows at fault.

Aside: It's always a good idea to disable file "find fast" indexing!

Okay, I'll look at that.  The ones you've mentioned I don't run, though.  
Still, I could go through all the running processes and check their 
priority.  

Okay, I checked the priority of everything, and changed the only other 
'low' to 'below normal'.  No change.  

It was a nice try, though.  

Chak

Outlook and Outlook Express are 2 others. If you have them running in
the background the whole machine will grind to a halt.