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Old 11-01-2010, 12:31 PM   #1
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Long story short: Can anyone tell me how I can find out what Windows 7 is doing in the background when it starts up or shuts down?

My computer at work makes me go through this ######ed dance twice a day. Around noon, without fail and regardless of whether I've loaded CP or not, I get a message about my computer being out of memory and that I have to restart all programs. Sometimes it singles out Outlook and/or Shoretell Call Manager but not always. I have 2GB of memory so Outlook, Word, Firefox and Shoretell *should* be able to co-exist.

I close everything, click restart and then... wait. Windows says it's logging off but sits there for sometimes 5-10 minutes. There's no evidence of what exactly needs to be logged off or why it's taking so longer.

There are also some obvious driver problems that I won't get in to (older Dell laptop that has Vista drivers instead of brand new W7 drivers for some items) causing problems with the docking station.

I'd like to know what's happening in the background so I might be able to troubleshoot the problem. I've tried virus scans and Malware but nothing obvious is found. I've uninstalled unneeded programs and defragged but to no avail.

Any ideas?
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Old 11-01-2010, 12:36 PM   #2
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Try this from a command prompt - BCDEDIT /set increaseuserva 2048
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Old 11-01-2010, 12:57 PM   #3
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Try this from a command prompt - BCDEDIT /set increaseuserva 2048
Boot state could not be opened. Access is denied.
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Old 11-01-2010, 12:59 PM   #4
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Boot state could not be opened. Access is denied.
Did you run cmd prompt as admin?
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Old 11-01-2010, 01:04 PM   #5
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Did you run cmd prompt as admin?
Of course I didn't.
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Old 11-02-2010, 04:07 PM   #6
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Same errors today, despite the help from Frank MetaMusil.

IT department's only suggestion for fixing the problem: nuke the system and reinstall everything.
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Old 11-02-2010, 04:31 PM   #7
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If you right click on the task bar and start up the Task Manager, that will give you a basic view of the resource usage. The Performance tab will tell you how much physical memory is being used, and the Processes tab will let you see which processes are using how much memory.

2GB isn't a whole lot, and Firefox can easily eat up 1/4 to half of that with a lot of tabs open and lots of flash sites. Depending on what's already in it, upgrading to 3 or 4GB (depending on if you have the 32 or 64 bit version of Windows) might be worth trying for the low cost.

How about your hard drive, is it full? Usually Windows will use part of the drive as virtual memory as well, long before you get an out of memory error.

The shutdown thing is probably driver related, they say Vista drivers work in Windows 7 but I'm skeptical of how well they would.
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