What's wrong now? internet pauses constantly

On 07/17/2009 10:33 AM, Robert Macy wrote:
On Jul 16, 7:24 pm, wrote:
On 07/16/2009 07:41 PM, Robert A. Macy wrote:





Running IE6 SP1 on Win98 FE connected through 56K dialup modem
Recently, periodically the system pauses for 20 seconds to upwards of
1 minute doing nothing!
Checking connection details, there is no data coming or going.
These pauses are like the CPU is super busy to the extent can't even
doing anything else, even the Desktop does not refresh. Cursor
doesn't even move.
I removed Adobe's Active X, or 9X
Also Microsoft Explorer (?) the mail program, never installed, but
seemed to have a vestige left in Control
Any ideas what's causing this? More, importantly, how to stop
pausing?
Robert
Uhm, did you check your firewall logs?

Not sure what you are using but if you can, turn on all logging
capabilities. In case your wondering why the suggestion:

* You likely have lurkers on your ISP, phone connection ISPs are
notorious for that activity. My secondary phoneline caused me to added
over two dozen network block address ranges to the firewall rules.
* JAVA has a couple of really dangerous issues [generally], and a couple
causing similar issues on some sites.
* If you're using FireFox, depending upon the version, you may have an
exploit being used [and yes even the 3.5 version {not available in 9X}
has issues].

Beyond those, are there any prior indications before the apparent pause.
Did you check for usual virus and SpyWare stuff [the run-through
always recommended]?

As for OE [Outlook Express, the mail program], it is a default install
during most IE6 installations [or rather was] and was generally
installed at some point in 98FE [IE5+].
What are you referring to as being in the Control Panel?
IIRC in 98FE - Internet Mail? MS Exchange. Been a long time so I'm
likely wrong on that...

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Thank you for replying.

Do lurkers transfer any data? If I hit the icon to look at the
connection, and it decides to even come up, I see absolutely NO
activity on the link, zip. No bit changes at all! But, a few bits
and then the screen changes.

At first I thought someone was 'raiding' my computer, but during these
freezes no data transfers. Also, no innappropriate cookies. Even the
temorary folders aren't flooded.

Also, at any time I have very few programs running. ctrl-alt-del
lists:
'IE6 name'
Explorer
Rnaap
Osa

and, that's it. Nothing else comes up. But sometimes I can't even
get the "What's running program" to come up. It is as if the CPU is
frozen.

The timing seems to be always when I ask for something. It's as
though IE6 doesn't send it upstream. Just sits there staring at me,
until I ask again, or take it off desktop and put it back, but even
then sometimes Win98 won't do anything with the image on the screen -
frozen CPU(?) Can't even get the screen to change.

I do have 500K of HOSTS, but I thought that would require transferring
bits between ISP and me. And, again, during these freezes there are
no bits transferring.

I don't know why, but this seems to match my wife's computer's
problems after I visited non-technical websites [although they should
be well behaved websites, too] that automatically installed new
features to the IE6? Her computer exhibited this 'hanging' before
mine did, and she was constantly complaining at how rude some of the
websites she went to were, in the way they would hang her computer to
the point of a power OFF reboot.

I just can't figure how to put back the IE6 to the way it was.

Robert

What sites?

By "ask for something" do you mean via a search engine or via
individual website?

And what was supposedly being installed?
Or was that a question per was there such a tool. Any TOOL which you
might find offered and/or automatically installed would likely be malicious.

What OS is she using?

Did you check your firewall logs?

What are the processing speeds and memories within the respective
computers?

What browser bars and other do you have installed?

What anti-virus and other protections do you have installed?

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http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
Windows Diagnostics, Security, Networking
http://peoplescounsel.org
The *REAL WORLD* of Law, Justice, and Government
_______

Why not contact your ISP? This sort of troubleshooting is what you pay them
for. They can monitor activity while you are on line and look at the actual
data flows. They can also take you through your configuration settings to
confirm they are correct.

It is unlikely that you have some other network activity taking over your
communication session, as the symptom is quite different - you would not see
Windows become unresponsive, but you would see activity continuing at the
same rate, while your pages drew slowly and with frequent short pauses.
You should use a CPU activity monitor to confirm this - I believe you will
find that the CPU is actually idle during these pauses.

You should also do some analysis aimed at finding a pattern in these pauses
associated with the sites being visited or the content of those sites. For
instance, does the pause occur once a site is loaded or only while finding
new pages?
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Robert A. Macy" wrote in message
...
Running IE6 SP1 on Win98 FE connected through 56K dialup modem

Recently, periodically the system pauses for 20 seconds to upwards of
1 minute doing nothing!

Checking connection details, there is no data coming or going.

These pauses are like the CPU is super busy to the extent can't even
doing anything else, even the Desktop does not refresh. Cursor
doesn't even move.

I removed Adobe's Active X, or 9X

Also Microsoft Explorer (?) the mail program, never installed, but
seemed to have a vestige left in Control

Any ideas what's causing this? More, importantly, how to stop
pausing?

Robert

Why not contact your ISP? This sort of troubleshooting is what you pay them
for. They can monitor activity while you are on line and look at the actual
data flows. They can also take you through your configuration settings to
confirm they are correct.

It is unlikely that you have some other network activity taking over your
communication session, as the symptom is quite different - you would not see
Windows become unresponsive, but you would see activity continuing at the
same rate, while your pages drew slowly and with frequent short pauses.
You should use a CPU activity monitor to confirm this - I believe you will
find that the CPU is actually idle during these pauses.

You should also do some analysis aimed at finding a pattern in these pauses
associated with the sites being visited or the content of those sites. For
instance, does the pause occur once a site is loaded or only while finding
new pages?
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Robert A. Macy" wrote in message
...
Running IE6 SP1 on Win98 FE connected through 56K dialup modem

Recently, periodically the system pauses for 20 seconds to upwards of
1 minute doing nothing!

Checking connection details, there is no data coming or going.

These pauses are like the CPU is super busy to the extent can't even
doing anything else, even the Desktop does not refresh. Cursor
doesn't even move.

I removed Adobe's Active X, or 9X

Also Microsoft Explorer (?) the mail program, never installed, but
seemed to have a vestige left in Control

Any ideas what's causing this? More, importantly, how to stop
pausing?

Robert

On 07/17/2009 12:33 PM, MEB wrote:
On 07/17/2009 10:33 AM, Robert Macy wrote:
On Jul 16, 7:24 pm, wrote:
On 07/16/2009 07:41 PM, Robert A. Macy wrote:





Running IE6 SP1 on Win98 FE connected through 56K dialup modem
Recently, periodically the system pauses for 20 seconds to upwards of
1 minute doing nothing!
Checking connection details, there is no data coming or going.
These pauses are like the CPU is super busy to the extent can't even
doing anything else, even the Desktop does not refresh. Cursor
doesn't even move.
I removed Adobe's Active X, or 9X
Also Microsoft Explorer (?) the mail program, never installed, but
seemed to have a vestige left in Control
Any ideas what's causing this? More, importantly, how to stop
pausing?
Robert
Uhm, did you check your firewall logs?

Not sure what you are using but if you can, turn on all logging
capabilities. In case your wondering why the suggestion:

* You likely have lurkers on your ISP, phone connection ISPs are
notorious for that activity. My secondary phoneline caused me to added
over two dozen network block address ranges to the firewall rules.
* JAVA has a couple of really dangerous issues [generally], and a couple
causing similar issues on some sites.
* If you're using FireFox, depending upon the version, you may have an
exploit being used [and yes even the 3.5 version {not available in 9X}
has issues].

Beyond those, are there any prior indications before the apparent pause.
Did you check for usual virus and SpyWare stuff [the run-through
always recommended]?

As for OE [Outlook Express, the mail program], it is a default install
during most IE6 installations [or rather was] and was generally
installed at some point in 98FE [IE5+].
What are you referring to as being in the Control Panel?
IIRC in 98FE - Internet Mail? MS Exchange. Been a long time so I'm
likely wrong on that...

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MEBhttp://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
Windows Diagnostics, Security, Networkinghttp://peoplescounsel.org
The *REAL WORLD* of Law, Justice, and Government
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- Show quoted text -

Thank you for replying.

Do lurkers transfer any data? If I hit the icon to look at the
connection, and it decides to even come up, I see absolutely NO
activity on the link, zip. No bit changes at all! But, a few bits
and then the screen changes.

At first I thought someone was 'raiding' my computer, but during these
freezes no data transfers. Also, no innappropriate cookies. Even the
temorary folders aren't flooded.

Also, at any time I have very few programs running. ctrl-alt-del
lists:
'IE6 name'
Explorer
Rnaap
Osa

Sorry, I quick read the post and overlooked this... why do you have
Office Startup running?
Do you have quick search [e.g., indexing] enabled?
What version of Office?


and, that's it. Nothing else comes up. But sometimes I can't even
get the "What's running program" to come up. It is as if the CPU is
frozen.

The timing seems to be always when I ask for something. It's as
though IE6 doesn't send it upstream. Just sits there staring at me,
until I ask again, or take it off desktop and put it back, but even
then sometimes Win98 won't do anything with the image on the screen -
frozen CPU(?) Can't even get the screen to change.

I do have 500K of HOSTS, but I thought that would require transferring
bits between ISP and me. And, again, during these freezes there are
no bits transferring.

I don't know why, but this seems to match my wife's computer's
problems after I visited non-technical websites [although they should
be well behaved websites, too] that automatically installed new
features to the IE6? Her computer exhibited this 'hanging' before
mine did, and she was constantly complaining at how rude some of the
websites she went to were, in the way they would hang her computer to
the point of a power OFF reboot.

I just can't figure how to put back the IE6 to the way it was.

Robert

What sites?

By "ask for something" do you mean via a search engine or via individual
website?

And what was supposedly being installed?
Or was that a question per was there such a tool. Any TOOL which you
might find offered and/or automatically installed would likely be
malicious.

What OS is she using?

Did you check your firewall logs?

What are the processing speeds and memories within the respective
computers?

What browser bars and other do you have installed?

What anti-virus and other protections do you have installed?



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MEB
http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
Windows Diagnostics, Security, Networking
http://peoplescounsel.org
The *REAL WORLD* of Law, Justice, and Government
_______

On 07/17/2009 12:33 PM, MEB wrote:
On 07/17/2009 10:33 AM, Robert Macy wrote:
On Jul 16, 7:24 pm, wrote:
On 07/16/2009 07:41 PM, Robert A. Macy wrote:





Running IE6 SP1 on Win98 FE connected through 56K dialup modem
Recently, periodically the system pauses for 20 seconds to upwards of
1 minute doing nothing!
Checking connection details, there is no data coming or going.
These pauses are like the CPU is super busy to the extent can't even
doing anything else, even the Desktop does not refresh. Cursor
doesn't even move.
I removed Adobe's Active X, or 9X
Also Microsoft Explorer (?) the mail program, never installed, but
seemed to have a vestige left in Control
Any ideas what's causing this? More, importantly, how to stop
pausing?
Robert
Uhm, did you check your firewall logs?

Not sure what you are using but if you can, turn on all logging
capabilities. In case your wondering why the suggestion:

* You likely have lurkers on your ISP, phone connection ISPs are
notorious for that activity. My secondary phoneline caused me to added
over two dozen network block address ranges to the firewall rules.
* JAVA has a couple of really dangerous issues [generally], and a couple
causing similar issues on some sites.
* If you're using FireFox, depending upon the version, you may have an
exploit being used [and yes even the 3.5 version {not available in 9X}
has issues].

Beyond those, are there any prior indications before the apparent pause.
Did you check for usual virus and SpyWare stuff [the run-through
always recommended]?

As for OE [Outlook Express, the mail program], it is a default install
during most IE6 installations [or rather was] and was generally
installed at some point in 98FE [IE5+].
What are you referring to as being in the Control Panel?
IIRC in 98FE - Internet Mail? MS Exchange. Been a long time so I'm
likely wrong on that...

--
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MEBhttp://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
Windows Diagnostics, Security, Networkinghttp://peoplescounsel.org
The *REAL WORLD* of Law, Justice, and Government
_______- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Thank you for replying.

Do lurkers transfer any data? If I hit the icon to look at the
connection, and it decides to even come up, I see absolutely NO
activity on the link, zip. No bit changes at all! But, a few bits
and then the screen changes.

At first I thought someone was 'raiding' my computer, but during these
freezes no data transfers. Also, no innappropriate cookies. Even the
temorary folders aren't flooded.

Also, at any time I have very few programs running. ctrl-alt-del
lists:
'IE6 name'
Explorer
Rnaap
Osa

Sorry, I quick read the post and overlooked this... why do you have
Office Startup running?
Do you have quick search [e.g., indexing] enabled?
What version of Office?


and, that's it. Nothing else comes up. But sometimes I can't even
get the "What's running program" to come up. It is as if the CPU is
frozen.

The timing seems to be always when I ask for something. It's as
though IE6 doesn't send it upstream. Just sits there staring at me,
until I ask again, or take it off desktop and put it back, but even
then sometimes Win98 won't do anything with the image on the screen -
frozen CPU(?) Can't even get the screen to change.

I do have 500K of HOSTS, but I thought that would require transferring
bits between ISP and me. And, again, during these freezes there are
no bits transferring.

I don't know why, but this seems to match my wife's computer's
problems after I visited non-technical websites [although they should
be well behaved websites, too] that automatically installed new
features to the IE6? Her computer exhibited this 'hanging' before
mine did, and she was constantly complaining at how rude some of the
websites she went to were, in the way they would hang her computer to
the point of a power OFF reboot.

I just can't figure how to put back the IE6 to the way it was.

Robert

What sites?

By "ask for something" do you mean via a search engine or via individual
website?

And what was supposedly being installed?
Or was that a question per was there such a tool. Any TOOL which you
might find offered and/or automatically installed would likely be
malicious.

What OS is she using?

Did you check your firewall logs?

What are the processing speeds and memories within the respective
computers?

What browser bars and other do you have installed?

What anti-virus and other protections do you have installed?



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MEB
http://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm
Windows Diagnostics, Security, Networking
http://peoplescounsel.org
The *REAL WORLD* of Law, Justice, and Government
_______

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:33:49 -0700, Robert Macy wrote:

On Jul 16, 7:24Â*pm, MEB wrote:
On 07/16/2009 07:41 PM, Robert A. Macy wrote:





Running IE6 SP1 on Win98 FE connected through 56K dialup modem

Recently, periodically the system pauses for 20 seconds to upwards of
1 minute doing nothing!

Checking connection details, there is no data coming or going.

These pauses are like the CPU is super busy to the extent can't even
doing anything else, even the Desktop does not refresh. Â*Cursor
doesn't even move.

I removed Adobe's Active X, or 9X

Also Microsoft Explorer (?) Â*the mail program, never installed, but
seemed to have a vestige left in Control

Any ideas what's causing this? Â*More, importantly, how to stop
pausing?

Robert

Â* Uhm, did you check your firewall logs?

Â* Not sure what you are using but if you can, turn on all logging
capabilities. In case your wondering why the suggestion:

* You likely have lurkers on your ISP, phone connection ISPs are
notorious for that activity. My secondary phoneline caused me to added
over two dozen network block address ranges to the firewall rules. *
JAVA has a couple of really dangerous issues [generally], and a couple
causing similar issues on some sites. * If you're using FireFox,
depending upon the version, you may have an exploit being used [and yes
even the 3.5 version {not available in 9X} has issues].

Â* Beyond those, are there any prior indications before the apparent
Â* pause. Did you check for usual virus and SpyWare stuff [the
Â* run-through
always recommended]?

Â* As for OE [Outlook Express, the mail program], it is a default
Â* install
during most IE6 installations [or rather was] and was generally
installed at some point in 98FE [IE5+].
Â* What are you referring to as being in the Control Panel?
IIRC in 98FE - Internet Mail? MS Exchange. Been a long time so I'm
likely wrong on that...

--
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MEBhttp://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm Windows Diagnostics,
Security, Networkinghttp://peoplescounsel.org The *REAL WORLD* of Law,
Justice, and Government _______- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Thank you for replying.

Do lurkers transfer any data? If I hit the icon to look at the
connection, and it decides to even come up, I see absolutely NO activity
on the link, zip. No bit changes at all! But, a few bits and then the
screen changes.

At first I thought someone was 'raiding' my computer, but during these
freezes no data transfers. Also, no innappropriate cookies. Even the
temorary folders aren't flooded.

Also, at any time I have very few programs running. ctrl-alt-del lists:
'IE6 name'
Explorer
Rnaap
Osa

and, that's it. Nothing else comes up. But sometimes I can't even get
the "What's running program" to come up. It is as if the CPU is frozen.

The timing seems to be always when I ask for something. It's as though
IE6 doesn't send it upstream. Just sits there staring at me, until I
ask again, or take it off desktop and put it back, but even then
sometimes Win98 won't do anything with the image on the screen - frozen
CPU(?) Can't even get the screen to change.

I do have 500K of HOSTS, but I thought that would require transferring
bits between ISP and me. And, again, during these freezes there are no
bits transferring.

I don't know why, but this seems to match my wife's computer's problems
after I visited non-technical websites [although they should be well
behaved websites, too] that automatically installed new features to the
IE6? Her computer exhibited this 'hanging' before mine did, and she was
constantly complaining at how rude some of the websites she went to
were, in the way they would hang her computer to the point of a power
OFF reboot.

I just can't figure how to put back the IE6 to the way it was.

I don't know how to check lurkers, but I do know something about stoppin
it. Turn security up to high in Internet options and make exceptions for
sites you visit frequently under trusted sites. Use a mozilla based
browser with the noscript addon. Mozilla suite and K-meleon support 98.
Also think about opera browser. Installing poledit will help too.

http://www.zisman.ca/poledit/

Make administrative and user accounts. Do most all of your work in a
user account. Just use administrative to install things and make
changes to your system.

Also consider a linux made for windows 98 computers like u-lite . check
out my sig. It comes in a live cd so you can try it out before you
install it.

--
http://english-158465906205.spampoison.com
http://u-lite.org

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:33:49 -0700, Robert Macy wrote:

On Jul 16, 7:24Â*pm, MEB wrote:
On 07/16/2009 07:41 PM, Robert A. Macy wrote:





Running IE6 SP1 on Win98 FE connected through 56K dialup modem

Recently, periodically the system pauses for 20 seconds to upwards of
1 minute doing nothing!

Checking connection details, there is no data coming or going.

These pauses are like the CPU is super busy to the extent can't even
doing anything else, even the Desktop does not refresh. Â*Cursor
doesn't even move.

I removed Adobe's Active X, or 9X

Also Microsoft Explorer (?) Â*the mail program, never installed, but
seemed to have a vestige left in Control

Any ideas what's causing this? Â*More, importantly, how to stop
pausing?

Robert

Â* Uhm, did you check your firewall logs?

Â* Not sure what you are using but if you can, turn on all logging
capabilities. In case your wondering why the suggestion:

* You likely have lurkers on your ISP, phone connection ISPs are
notorious for that activity. My secondary phoneline caused me to added
over two dozen network block address ranges to the firewall rules. *
JAVA has a couple of really dangerous issues [generally], and a couple
causing similar issues on some sites. * If you're using FireFox,
depending upon the version, you may have an exploit being used [and yes
even the 3.5 version {not available in 9X} has issues].

Â* Beyond those, are there any prior indications before the apparent
Â* pause. Did you check for usual virus and SpyWare stuff [the
Â* run-through
always recommended]?

Â* As for OE [Outlook Express, the mail program], it is a default
Â* install
during most IE6 installations [or rather was] and was generally
installed at some point in 98FE [IE5+].
Â* What are you referring to as being in the Control Panel?
IIRC in 98FE - Internet Mail? MS Exchange. Been a long time so I'm
likely wrong on that...

--
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MEBhttp://peoplescounsel.org/ref/windows-main.htm Windows Diagnostics,
Security, Networkinghttp://peoplescounsel.org The *REAL WORLD* of Law,
Justice, and Government _______- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Thank you for replying.

Do lurkers transfer any data? If I hit the icon to look at the
connection, and it decides to even come up, I see absolutely NO activity
on the link, zip. No bit changes at all! But, a few bits and then the
screen changes.

At first I thought someone was 'raiding' my computer, but during these
freezes no data transfers. Also, no innappropriate cookies. Even the
temorary folders aren't flooded.

Also, at any time I have very few programs running. ctrl-alt-del lists:
'IE6 name'
Explorer
Rnaap
Osa

and, that's it. Nothing else comes up. But sometimes I can't even get
the "What's running program" to come up. It is as if the CPU is frozen.

The timing seems to be always when I ask for something. It's as though
IE6 doesn't send it upstream. Just sits there staring at me, until I
ask again, or take it off desktop and put it back, but even then
sometimes Win98 won't do anything with the image on the screen - frozen
CPU(?) Can't even get the screen to change.

I do have 500K of HOSTS, but I thought that would require transferring
bits between ISP and me. And, again, during these freezes there are no
bits transferring.

I don't know why, but this seems to match my wife's computer's problems
after I visited non-technical websites [although they should be well
behaved websites, too] that automatically installed new features to the
IE6? Her computer exhibited this 'hanging' before mine did, and she was
constantly complaining at how rude some of the websites she went to
were, in the way they would hang her computer to the point of a power
OFF reboot.

I just can't figure how to put back the IE6 to the way it was.

I don't know how to check lurkers, but I do know something about stoppin
it. Turn security up to high in Internet options and make exceptions for
sites you visit frequently under trusted sites. Use a mozilla based
browser with the noscript addon. Mozilla suite and K-meleon support 98.
Also think about opera browser. Installing poledit will help too.

http://www.zisman.ca/poledit/

Make administrative and user accounts. Do most all of your work in a
user account. Just use administrative to install things and make
changes to your system.

Also consider a linux made for windows 98 computers like u-lite . check
out my sig. It comes in a live cd so you can try it out before you
install it.

--
http://english-158465906205.spampoison.com
http://u-lite.org

If you can associate the pauses with sites that play sounds then that would
be a good pointer to the cause of the problem (as also for animations). If
Windows thinks there is a sound capability in the system but it is not
working properly then that could explain the pauses. It might be hanging
the whole system until it thinks that the sound has completed playing, which
would also explain why the pauses vary in length.. It would be simple to
unmute your sound and see if there is any connection between playing sounds
and pausing.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
On Jul 17, 4:28 am, "glee" wrote:
"Robert A. Macy" wrote in
...

snip

Thank you for your reply. I never thought to check the clock during
these times. But, from memory it never shifted enough to notice
before a reboot. Will watch that.

Sound card losing time? Hmmm. This computer has no ability to make
sound [except the beeper]. I think a sound feature is unsuccessfully
installed, but I mute. Hate to hear those obnoxius sounds. I wonder
if there's some kind of conflict that 'confuses' the CPU if it tries
to make a sound? Where would I look for that? Perhaps a website
added sound to my IE6, or such and the updated interface to sound is
causing all this. Is that possible?

Robert

If you can associate the pauses with sites that play sounds then that would
be a good pointer to the cause of the problem (as also for animations). If
Windows thinks there is a sound capability in the system but it is not
working properly then that could explain the pauses. It might be hanging
the whole system until it thinks that the sound has completed playing, which
would also explain why the pauses vary in length.. It would be simple to
unmute your sound and see if there is any connection between playing sounds
and pausing.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
On Jul 17, 4:28 am, "glee" wrote:
"Robert A. Macy" wrote in
...

snip

Thank you for your reply. I never thought to check the clock during
these times. But, from memory it never shifted enough to notice
before a reboot. Will watch that.

Sound card losing time? Hmmm. This computer has no ability to make
sound [except the beeper]. I think a sound feature is unsuccessfully
installed, but I mute. Hate to hear those obnoxius sounds. I wonder
if there's some kind of conflict that 'confuses' the CPU if it tries
to make a sound? Where would I look for that? Perhaps a website
added sound to my IE6, or such and the updated interface to sound is
causing all this. Is that possible?

Robert

On Jul 17, 10:57*pm, "Jeff Richards" wrote:
If you can associate the pauses with sites that play sounds then that would
be a good pointer to the cause of the problem (as also for animations). If
Windows thinks there is a sound capability in the system but it is not
working properly then that could explain the pauses. *It might be hanging
the whole system until it thinks that the sound has completed playing, which
would also explain why the pauses vary in length.. It would be simple to
unmute your sound and see if there is any connection between playing sounds
and pausing.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)"Robert Macy" wrote in message

...
On Jul 17, 4:28 am, "glee" wrote:

"Robert A. Macy" wrote in
...

snip

Thank you for your reply. *I never thought to check the clock during
these times. *But, from memory it never shifted enough to notice
before a reboot. *Will watch that.

Sound card losing time? *Hmmm. *This computer has no ability to make
sound [except the beeper]. *I think a sound feature is unsuccessfully
installed, but I mute. *Hate to hear those obnoxius sounds. *I wonder
if there's some kind of conflict that 'confuses' the CPU if it tries
to make a sound? *Where would I look for that? *Perhaps a website
added sound to my IE6, or such and the updated interface to sound is
causing all this. *Is that possible?

Robert

LOST TIME: had the analog clock displaying as the 'pauses' occurred
the clock kept right on running, no lost seconds

SOUND: UNMUTED: if I double click on a .wav file this system appears
to try to play the sound, but plug in in the speakers into any outlet
there is no sound coming out. [These speakers work in the rarely used
WinXP machine]. Unmute seems to only turn on the piezo beeper.

Under multimedia shows the modem as an audio device with its own
codecs, This modem card is capable of being an answering machine, but
is not used.

Robert