Icon on taskbar

weemcd

Been noticing that icon a few times in the past few days on my comp and i was wondering what it meant.

Someone told me it may be something to do with the virtual memory in windows.

I have noticed the comp can be very slow at times, firefox download manager seems to cripple the pc for some reason. Mabye someone could reccomend a new download extension as an alternative for firefox's default one?

My specs are

amd xp 2000+
256mb pc2700
80 gig wd ide (8mb cache)
nvidia 5900xt 128mb

oneweb

um, what does it say when you mouseover or click on it?

weemcd

didnt say anything i think.

I clicked it and it disappeared.

Rhyme

That is the virtual memory icon, my pc gave a lot of trouble when that started to appear... then my pc went kaput. Hasnt resurfaced yet (im being careful)

mp3guy

either buy more ram or increase the size of your page file... or your hard drive might be full

aaf

My guess is that you have SP2 installed and that's the icon that appears when windows updates are being downloaded, which would hog your internet connection.. If you want to disable this, go into control panel, automatic updates and turn off from there. Just remember to check for windows updates monthly!

Stephen

That icon also appears when you are getting delayed write failures to your hard disk - often due to a wonky IDE cable or overheating north bridge. (or indeed a dying hard disk)

Soundman

aaf wrote:

My guess is that you have SP2 installed and that's the icon that appears when windows updates are being downloaded, which would hog your internet connection.. If you want to disable this, go into control panel, automatic updates and turn off from there. Just remember to check for windows updates monthly!

Not the same icon. As far as I remember the icon you are talking about is the Yellow shield with teh exclamation mark in it. Not the yellow triangle.

Endurance Man

Not the same icon. As far as I remember the icon you are talking about is the Yellow shield with teh exclamation mark in it. Not the yellow triangle.

Yup, this is correct

weemcd

aye its not windows update as i have that switched off.

Changed my page file under the advice of moriarty and i havnt seen the exclamation mark yet.

My cpu has been acting fairly eratically tho.

theres a screenie i took from within task manager



I had winamp, messenger, ff, thunderbird and xchat running as you can see from the taskbar.

Is the cpu usage not fairly high?

i left it idle while the graph was plotting then took the screenie.

Vikings

Running XP with 256mb of ram is almost criminal, forget multitasking at all. You need more ram, either buy another 256, or another 512 and stick it in. www.shop4memory.com

aaf

Endurance Man wrote:

Yup, this is correct

Sorry, you guys are correct.