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[CJB]

Thank you for the links. Yes - it was a resources issue. Now Gip
flies, and other web pages open up immediately.

There were two culprits - hogging 100% of the cpu - that I've now got rid of.

Using Task manager and Resource Manager the hogs were:

1/ msmpeng.exe - an anti-malware executable from MSE or MS Defender.
Using MSConfig this has now been disabled - never to be restarted; and

2/ an Abode Acrobat plugin for Chrome - two versions of which were
running and both hogging 100% of the cpu. These have now been closed
down.

No wonder nothing else ojuld run, the above apps were causing the cpu
to remain at 100%, with a huge amount of disk accessing which I
presume was the swap file paging.

Now all is well - and I can even download Springwatch!!!

CJB.

On 06/06/2015, Vangelis forthnet <northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> On Fri Jun 5 23:29:47 BST 2015, CJB wrote:
>
>> Things were great yesterday (Thursday)
>> (snip)
>> Sadly things today (Friday) have not gone well.
>
>  I'm out of my depth here (???) - I was about to say
> that only YOU know what could have changed in your
> system between yesterday and today (e.g. MS updates,
> MSE definitions files, other AntiVirus used definition
> updates etc.) when I just saw a quasi-relevant post on
> the Support Forum:
> https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/topic/web-pvr-manager-fails-to-fork-after-a-day-or-so/
> (one system also being Win7).
> Do not have a Win7 box here to try
> and reproduce...
> Given the user share of Win7,
> if this is a more general issue, expect
> more reports in the list/forum...
>
> In the meantime, can you ping localhost?
> In an administrator command prompt window
> (Start -> "Start search field" type: cmd ->
> right click the "cmd.exe" result and run as admin ->
> this opens:
> C:\Windows\system32>
> type: "ping localhost" (without quotes), if
> localhost (i.e. your own computer) is running,
> you'll get something like:
>
> Pinging (name of PC) [::1] from ::1 with 32 bytes of data:
> Reply from ::1: time<1ms
> Reply from ::1: time<1ms
> Reply from ::1: time<1ms
> Reply from ::1: time<1ms
>
> Ping statistics for ::1:
>     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>     Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
>
> C:\Windows\system32>
>
> It may also be that another app on your machine
> is using port 1935, so there might be a port conflict...
> Or for whatever reason port 1935 may have been
> blocked (firewall rule?)
> As a longshot, please also try
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/873778
> (backup your hosts file first:
> C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
>  - if you mess it up
> you'll lose all internet connections...
> Search the net on how to enable hosts
> file editing on Win7)
>
>> This issue has effectively stopped me
>> from downloading everything and anything.
>
> This is an over-dramatised hyperbole...
> Have you tried the CLI? If it works
> (most probably), it can do the same (and much
> more) as the GUI - ample instructions on
> how to use the CLI on the GiP Wiki:
>
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation#command-usage
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/manpage
>
> If the CLI doesn't work at all,
> then you've got a serious problem on your hands...
>
> Regards
>
>
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