Even when my computer is idle the number of handles continually increases to well over 1,000,000. When I use "Sysinternals" procexp.exe the extra handles belong to the system. Eventually the machine hangs; frequently Skype complains that there is not enough storage to process a command.
Define "handles". Please elaborate on the particular problem you are experiencing.
PC Specs?
Prebuilt- Brand Name & Model Number
Custom Build- Brand & Model of Mobo-CPU-RAM-Graphics-PSU
By handles I mean the handles specified under the Performance tab of Windows Task Manager. System Info. follows.
Computer Dell Dimension 3100
CPU Intel® Pentium® 4 with Hyper-Threading technology
Memory 1024 MB dual channel 400 MHz DDR2
Hard Drives 1) 80 GB SATA with two partitions, 17.5 GB for the C: drive & the rest for data
2) 1TB SATA Seagate - unpartitioned
Computer Information
Chipset Intel 915GV
RAID support RAID 1 (mirroring)
DMA channels eight
Interrupt levels 24
BIOS chip (NVRAM) 4 Mb
NIC Integrated network interface capable of 10/100 communication
System clock 800-MHz data rate
Video Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900
Audio Integrated 2.0 Channel High Definition Audio
OS XP SP3
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