From: "Robert Comer" 

> Anyone saw something liek this ?
> I saw similar stuf.

All the time.

When Windows(whatever) is doing some kind of heavy network traffic or a
wait situation like looking for a DHCP server, the shell becomes almost
totally unresponsive.

You can make things block out for shorter times by having less (or no)
network drives attached.

> System worked without problem for 2 years, I think that this is happenig
> as SP2 is installed.

Like I said, I've had this problem for many years on many PC's, but yes,
SP2 seems to make it a bit worse.

> I should try to catch low level interrupts from modem, as this could
> indicate that driver needs updating.

I doubt it's the problem.

- Bob Comer




"Hrvoje Mesing"  wrote in
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> Hi,
>
> machine has an extern U.S. Robotics 33.6 modem.
> After Dial-Up init, OS stales.
> So, after connection establish it blocks for like a few minutes.
> If You check Task Manager there is no Processor usage/over usage by
> processes, also there is no mem usage, nor process working set inc.
> If You start new aplication, like explorer, iexplorer, OE or something
> else You see that new process is created, it alocates memory, it has proc.
> usage to run itself, but they never display their windos/dialogs.
> If You start another instance of task manager, You can see it in task
> manager, that it runs like secong taskmgr process.
> After like a 2-3 minutes, every single runned process (aplication) window
> just displays on the Desktop.
> There is no error.
> There is no Viruses, ads, etc.
>
> Anyone saw something liek this ?
> I saw similar stuf.
>
> System worked without problem for 2 years, I think that this is happenig
> as SP2 is installed.
>
> I should try to catch low level interrupts from modem, as this could
> indicate that driver needs updating.
>
> Everything else is working as beautifle as it can.
>
>
> Thank You,
>
>
> ---
> M.
>

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