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I finally bought a Dell XPS, 3G P4 computer with 1G memory, 120 Gig
HD, Radeon 9800 Graphic Card, DVD+R burner, and Audigy 2 sound.

Now, the questions.

I've noticed on two or three separate occasions that my computer has
just hung for several seconds and not been responsive to the typical
CTRL ALT DELETE keystroke. It will then suddenly recover. Is this
something common with XP? It's happened during video editing software
usage mostly. How about lockups that can't be fixed without powering
down the machine?

Secondly, what's good for editing video and burning DVDs? I've tried
several trial packages and they all seem to lock up or malfuction at
some stage of the process, from capturing video to burning DVDs. Any
recommendations?
 
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)

Darren,

I've seen this behavior on several new Dell PCs (although I don't think its
a Dell issue). First thing you want to do is make sure your AV software is
up to date and working properly. Don't assume that because the PC is new
the AV software is up to date. Then you may want to un install things like
Dells Support software. It calls home at certain intervals and may cause
this type of problem. Next, a good software firewall software will help you
monitor network traffic and maybe identify network communication that could
cause the symptoms. You can also bring up Task Manger and monitor the
running processes and see if any one process takes up all the CPU cycles
when the problem occurs.

One thing I've found that solves the problem and other similar problems, is
to format the system and completely rebuild it clean with only the software
you want installed on the system.

--

Rob



"Darren Yatadooet" <googlegroup@cowcope.com> wrote in message
news:d21e8aa5.0405030626.5e7409b9@posting.google.com...
> I finally bought a Dell XPS, 3G P4 computer with 1G memory, 120 Gig
> HD, Radeon 9800 Graphic Card, DVD+R burner, and Audigy 2 sound.
>
> Now, the questions.
>
> I've noticed on two or three separate occasions that my computer has
> just hung for several seconds and not been responsive to the typical
> CTRL ALT DELETE keystroke. It will then suddenly recover. Is this
> something common with XP? It's happened during video editing software
> usage mostly. How about lockups that can't be fixed without powering
> down the machine?
>
> Secondly, what's good for editing video and burning DVDs? I've tried
> several trial packages and they all seem to lock up or malfuction at
> some stage of the process, from capturing video to burning DVDs. Any
> recommendations?
 
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)

got a new dell laptop last December and it ran slow so I uninstalled Norton
and put another anti-virus program on. That did the trick, runs fine now.

"Darren Yatadooet" <googlegroup@cowcope.com> wrote in message
news:d21e8aa5.0405030626.5e7409b9@posting.google.com...
> I finally bought a Dell XPS, 3G P4 computer with 1G memory, 120 Gig
> HD, Radeon 9800 Graphic Card, DVD+R burner, and Audigy 2 sound.
>
> Now, the questions.
>
> I've noticed on two or three separate occasions that my computer has
> just hung for several seconds and not been responsive to the typical
> CTRL ALT DELETE keystroke. It will then suddenly recover. Is this
> something common with XP? It's happened during video editing software
> usage mostly. How about lockups that can't be fixed without powering
> down the machine?
>
> Secondly, what's good for editing video and burning DVDs? I've tried
> several trial packages and they all seem to lock up or malfuction at
> some stage of the process, from capturing video to burning DVDs. Any
> recommendations?
 
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)

Just to share an experience from 'the other side'...I've used NAV since 1997
and have never noticed a slowdown in response, and I have it starting with
Windows and running in the background. Maybe it's not as good with laptops
(I've only used desktops) or perhaps it's not playing nice with something
else installed on your computer. Nonetheless, I have read other reports of
NAV slowing a computer, so there's gotta be something to it.

Rocky

"BigJIm" <woody10277@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:sywlc.17212$IG1.597645@attbi_s04...
> got a new dell laptop last December and it ran slow so I uninstalled
Norton
> and put another anti-virus program on. That did the trick, runs fine now.
>
> "Darren Yatadooet" <googlegroup@cowcope.com> wrote in message
> news:d21e8aa5.0405030626.5e7409b9@posting.google.com...
> > I finally bought a Dell XPS, 3G P4 computer with 1G memory, 120 Gig
> > HD, Radeon 9800 Graphic Card, DVD+R burner, and Audigy 2 sound.
> >
> > Now, the questions.
> >
> > I've noticed on two or three separate occasions that my computer has
> > just hung for several seconds and not been responsive to the typical
> > CTRL ALT DELETE keystroke. It will then suddenly recover. Is this
> > something common with XP? It's happened during video editing software
> > usage mostly. How about lockups that can't be fixed without powering
> > down the machine?
> >
> > Secondly, what's good for editing video and burning DVDs? I've tried
> > several trial packages and they all seem to lock up or malfuction at
> > some stage of the process, from capturing video to burning DVDs. Any
> > recommendations?
>
>
 
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)

googlegroup@cowcope.com (Darren Yatadooet) wrote in
news:d21e8aa5.0405030626.5e7409b9@posting.google.com:

> I finally bought a Dell XPS, 3G P4 computer with 1G memory, 120 Gig
> HD, Radeon 9800 Graphic Card, DVD+R burner, and Audigy 2 sound.
>
> Now, the questions.
>
> I've noticed on two or three separate occasions that my computer has
> just hung for several seconds and not been responsive to the typical
> CTRL ALT DELETE keystroke. It will then suddenly recover. Is this
> something common with XP? It's happened during video editing software
> usage mostly. How about lockups that can't be fixed without powering
> down the machine?
>
> Secondly, what's good for editing video and burning DVDs? I've tried
> several trial packages and they all seem to lock up or malfuction at
> some stage of the process, from capturing video to burning DVDs. Any
> recommendations?
>

Can't help with the first question, sorry. As far as the second question
goes, the best program I've used for burning DVDs is 123 Copy DVD. You
can either buy it at Walmart or download it from the website, which is
just the product name, dot com. Either way it's 20 bucks. Get the
encryption patch from the site before you use it. It's free and doesn't
take too long, you don't even have to register. I don't think it does
editing, though. Might be wrong on that. Good luck!
 
Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (More info?)

In article <d81ea63b40dc00b7360e3171894652d3@news.teranews.com>,
rocky@bullwinkle.com says...
> Just to share an experience from 'the other side'...I've used NAV since 1997
> and have never noticed a slowdown in response, and I have it starting with
> Windows and running in the background. Maybe it's not as good with laptops
> (I've only used desktops) or perhaps it's not playing nice with something
> else installed on your computer. Nonetheless, I have read other reports of
> NAV slowing a computer, so there's gotta be something to it.
>
> Rocky

I've used it since the started calling it Norton/Symantec. There is a
very small performance hit, but nothing that most people notice. I run
the Corporate edition on my main workstation and laptops, and servers,
the personal 2004 edition on my kids machines and some clients systems.

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