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PC & MAC CLINIC - On line problem solving. (CPU)     

Crocodile - 16 Dec 2002 03:59

hilary - 15 Dec 2008 13:59 - 7527 of 11003

Errrrrrrr. On one of my PC's the " key seems to have swapped with the @ key.

Why would this be?

Kayak - 15 Dec 2008 14:28 - 7528 of 11003

Control Panel/Keyboard, I think it's the American keyboard rather than the English one.

ExecLine - 15 Dec 2008 14:32 - 7529 of 11003

Hils,

Have a look at Key Tweak:

It says, "Keytweak is a free keyboard remapper for Windows NT/2000/XP. It makes use of Microsoft's Scancode Map registry key to remap your keyboard. VB6 Runtime files are required, but are already present on Windows 2000/XP."

http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/

hilary - 15 Dec 2008 15:04 - 7530 of 11003

Thanks K & Doc.

I'm sure that you're right about it swapping to American, but I can't seem to find how to swap it back. Control Panel>Keyboard doesn't seem to be the answer. There must be something else in the Control Panel ......

Kayak - 15 Dec 2008 15:23 - 7531 of 11003

You're looking for something called input locale...

hilary - 15 Dec 2008 15:37 - 7532 of 11003

Well I've found something in the Advanced bit of Regional and Language Options that was in US. I've altered the setting to UK but I now need a reboot, so it'll have to wait until next weekend now.

Dailos - 15 Dec 2008 15:37 - 7533 of 11003

Kayak
How do i do that?

Dil - 15 Dec 2008 16:03 - 7534 of 11003

Mates pc keeps going straight to blue screen error message on start up ... any suggestions ?

Cheers

Seymour Clearly - 15 Dec 2008 16:33 - 7535 of 11003

Dailos, Press and hold down in this order: Ctrl Alt Delete ,then release all. This brings up Windows task manager. Then click on the "performance" tab and it shows up how muh memory you're using as well as how hard the CPU is working.

Dailos - 15 Dec 2008 16:42 - 7536 of 11003

Cheers Seymour
It says 76% of memory used and CPU usage 0%...?

Dil
Get in the queue!
:-)

Kayak - 15 Dec 2008 16:44 - 7537 of 11003

Dailos, look at the 'Physical memory - Total' number and also on the Processes tab, look at what processes are using the most memory (Mem usage).

Dailos - 15 Dec 2008 16:54 - 7538 of 11003

biggest 2 are...

"host process for windows services" 27815K
"ho healthcheck services 10844k

Shall i delete them..how do i do it?

Kayak - 15 Dec 2008 17:10 - 7539 of 11003

They're not very big Dailos - what does the Physical memory - Total figure on the other tab say? And how much memory is the PC meant to have?

Dailos - 15 Dec 2008 17:16 - 7540 of 11003

Sounds like the PC just hasnt much memory, dont know where the other tab is but it totals about 200K whats on the list that is.
Its a mates childs PC, he's given it to me as hedoesnt know how to switch it on.and thinks im an expert cos i do..!!!!!!!
How can i give it more memory?

Kayak - 15 Dec 2008 17:22 - 7541 of 11003

It's on the Performance tab...

Otherwise on the task manager window again, do Help/About, it should tell you how much memory is there.

Dailos - 15 Dec 2008 17:25 - 7542 of 11003

says it has 514k avaialble to windows.
(im on the verge of binning this and buying him a new one, am learning
a lot though so thanks!)

Seymour Clearly - 15 Dec 2008 17:31 - 7543 of 11003

All you need is to open the case up and take out the memory to find out what you have. An easier fix is to use the crucial website - download a bit of software onto your machine. You need to be using Internet Explorer.

Crucial website
They will tell you what memory you have and what you need to upgrade.

Kayak - 15 Dec 2008 17:33 - 7544 of 11003

512MB is far too little these days. Adding memory is easy if the PC itself is going to be fast enough afterwards. What is the speed of the CPU? It should say as one of the first couple of lines it displays just as it boots, try pressing the Pause/Break key to stop it scrolling. E.g. Pentium 2.3 GHz.

Optimist - 15 Dec 2008 17:45 - 7545 of 11003

Dailos

Download Belarc Advisor. It will give you a web page showing all the details of your machine.

Dailos - 15 Dec 2008 17:47 - 7546 of 11003

Its says RAM 512mb (how did you know!)
And 1.86 ghz
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