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richsmith88
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May 8th, 2006 22:00
Games/MS Office got minimize while playing, please help!!! Thanks!!
I just bought a Dell Dimension E510 3.4G/ 1G RAM/256M nVidia 7300LE. The system is pretty much top of line. However, when I play games on this system, about every 20 mins the game will get minimize for unclear reason. It does NOT happen when we play
the same games on other system. FYI – the games that we are playing are Battlefield 2, Empire Earth 2, and The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II. Even know both games and OS (Win XP) did not crash, but it’s very annoying problem. This tells me that the system is very unstable. Btw, we only play these games locally; we don’t play online (which requires more system resources).
I even did another experiment: I've 5 IE Explorer, 5 MS Words, 5
Excel, and 2 PowerPoint maximize in my system. I let
the system running for about 2 hours. I when I checked
after 2 hours, guess what happened: THREE of the MS
Words AND Excel, ONE of the PowerPoint got minimize!!!
Does anyone out there have this kind of problem?? I contacted Dell, but they basically blamed on the software (How convenient, huh?), which I don’t buy it! I’ve to
emphasize that when we played aforementioned games in
other system, it worked fine. The other machine does
NOT minimize the game every 20 mins. I can even tell
you that other machine is not as high end as the one
that I bought. I’ve been using computer for a long long long time, but I didn’t see anything like this happened before. I believe there is something wrong with the hardware (maybe the motherboard).
Anyone who countered this problem, please leave me a message. I greatly appreciated your help!!!:mansad:
- You should go into Add/Remove Program option in Control Panels and see if you can remove any 'STUPID' programs Dell preloaded onto your box that you might not need. Dell installs craps load of stuff that you might not need. That's the first thing I done after receiving my Inspiron 6000. You will be surprise how many 'helpful program' Dell installs on your box which you might not know and is wasting the system's resources. See if that would help or not. You can also run 'msconfig' and uncheck anything you MIGHT not need. Next try do a virus scan... it could be a spyware as well. Lastly, run spybot -search and destory (do a google search and it's free). Should work great with your 'up-to-date' antivirus.Anyhow, hope this is helpful.
richsmith88
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Posted May 11th, 2006 22:00
thank you for your suggestion. unfortunately i already tried what you said and my system is still minimizing. any other idea? please advise. thank you for your help!I am presuming when you say 'get minimised' that the programs you refer to haven't actually crashed. I think dell is right..this is a software issue...or more precisely some scheduled task which interferes with your applications every twenty minutes or so. First port of call is to check your performance and maintanence "scheduled" tasks list. Do you have something scheduled every twenty minutes or so that you don't need?...try eliminating your screensaver also ( they're an awful waste of time anyway).
Check also firewall/antivirus software settings...it may be this is the cause of your interference and may for some reason be scheduled to update at far too regular intervals. Consider also some of those annoying registration programmes that are installed with a lot of games these days...that continually "remind" you to register or update if you haven't allready. Let us know how you get on.
Regards
Message Edited by omnituton on 05-12-200607:26 PM
Message Edited by omnituton on 05-12-200607:27 PM
krimz
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Posted May 9th, 2006 10:00
Message Edited by krimz on 05-09-200606:57 AM