AIM: Why does it Take so Much system Resources???

[voogru]

Ok

This Is About AOL Insant Messaging

I Decided to do a test on how much System Resouces AOL IM Takes up Because On my GF's Comp She Kept getting Blue Screens Of Death
so i did a test

This Is my Computer Running With out AOL IM
http://www.geocities.com/voogru/noaol.jpg

This Is my Computer Runnig With AOL IM
http://www.geocities.com/voogru/withaol.jpg

Well whats with that?
That quite a Bit Of System Resouces eh?

Maybe AOL IM does a whole Lot More than Istant Message.
Like

record all Punched Keys
Send Valueble Information to AOL
Or Do Some Strange Unknown Things to your computer.

NOTE: IE explore is running In the background when both of these were taken.

What do you think?

voogru

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[jonnyjack]

i just tried that test of yours...without AIM running and netscape in the background, i have 80% resources free...

with AIM running and netscape in the background, it's 75%...

i have the same amount of RAM as you, 64 MB

[flash4master]

i got lots of stuff runnin with 64mb ram...lets see, my list is freei(banner takes up resources), AIM, icq, 1-2 IE5.5 browsers,would optical mouse software take up resources? ,virus scanners and other odds and ends, and im still at 60% free resources

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[voogru]

Ya i guess you right i got a pile of other **** on like norton and stuff like that

[Warthog]

It's a conspiracy! They are all lieing! They all have the same problem but are too afraid to admit it for fear that Case will destory them! Fight the good fight! Do something for The Cause! Serve your country! Uninstall AOL!

There is hope for you yet, voogru.

Warthog

[wtp]

ICQ is a hog.. i erased it. AIM is alright.

[oblivion]

I am gonna go out on a limb here and say.....maybe she has a slow computer???????

Mine is quite fast...and niether AIM or ICQ take up hardly a stratch of the resources..............what CPU does she have,and how much ram.......also is her system IDE???

SHouldnt this be in general tech???

[brandon184]

Wow.. That was an extremely high end, technically advanced test you did there, bud. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif I'm just buggin' ya.

What are your system specs?

- Brandon

[ablang]

The question is, how often are you forced to reboot your computer because of AIM? And how often w/o it? It's probably negligible.

[voogru]

My GF's System specs

Celeron 500
Intel 810 Chipset
64 Mb ram
10GB 7200 RPM HDD
El Cheapo CD-rom
El Cheapo video card

Bla bla bla


voogru

*update*
My Computer is running much better without AO-hell Instant Crash.
Installed ICQ
Comps running better than ever!


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[Gomer]

AIM is a fine product.... Don't knock it just because you can't get it to work on your system. Maybe you should continue to try to figure out the underlying cause of your problem.

[Eli]

I'm running several IE 5.5 windows, AIM, ICQ, AVP, Direct CD, and Winamp right now, while letting another computer run Quake 2 from my hard drive, and my resources are still well above 60%. In fact, your computer eclipses mine specs wise (PII 300, 64 meg ram) so you shouldn't have a problem. I am curious as to why your System Properties shows 63 MB of ram though. How does that work?

[voogru]

1 MB to video i guess

[blade_146]

A lot of norton stuff running ain't good either. Just use it when you need it and dont let it load on bootup.

[Mr.Goodbytes]

Yeah, the i810 chipset has onboard wimpy graphics with shared architecture memory up to 11MB of the system. Even though it's a celeron, the chipset hampers system performance. BTW, how much of the 10GB harddrive do you have free?