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3 data related questions. unrelated file in use, RAM, pagefile
3 data related questions.
I'm using Vista but it's a lot like w7, and these questions apply to XP too, I think. 1) Coming out of Windows sleep or maybe FFox crashing, I'm looking at Win Resource Monitor, Disk, and I see about 500,000,000 Bytes/minute being read from C:\downloads\xp-downloads\COL18341.exe which has nothing to do with anything. It's some sort of Photosmart Premier 7.5 for HP that I downloaded for some reason 3 years ago. I've never run it. I don't know how long the transfer lasted but it was showing in the Monitor window least 20 seconds. The program never started or anything and after it was gone from the Monitor window, I saw no trace of it. What the heck was happening and why? Why this file? 2) Even when I'm only using 80% of my RAM, I think I still see a lot of reading or writing the pagefile. Not in volume of data maybe but from more than one program, right now, explorer, lsass, firefox, system, avgsnx, eudora, all reading from pagefile at the same time, with 83% of RAM in use. Does that make sense? 3) Anyhow, the computer is functioning well almost all the time, but I see a lot of reading and writing that pagefile If I had two more gigs of RAM, 4 gigs total, and was running the same number of programs and the same OS, would I expect to see no use of the pagefile? |