VinnieVicon Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Hi, the little blue circle keeps come on when I'm working in Chief and in some other programs. But in Chief I can't go 30 seconds without the little blue circle spinning around holding me up in a big way and it spins for a little while but it's constant. I'm not sure what the problem is, undo is turned off. Please Help Vinnie Chief X6 Windows 7 64 Bit 16 MB RAM Quad core Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Vinnie, It could be anything from a hardware problem to software, to a problem with your model. Try turning off all the auto build settings in Chief. Post your plan here so that someone else can give it a run and see if there is a problem with the plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinnieVicon Posted May 20, 2014 Author Share Posted May 20, 2014 Thanks Glenn, I'll do that. Vinnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC-1701 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Since you are having trouble with other programs, sounds like it is time to 'clean' up your computer... Get rid of those programs you never use, update all your drivers....then clean out all the 'internet crap', then clean out your registry, then defrag your hard drive. I love CCleaner, been using it for years... https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download They also have a defrag utility: https://www.piriform.com/defraggler/download The free versions work great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kMoquin Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Vinnie, I'm having the same thing happen, though not every 30 seconds. The blue donut shows up more frequently than it seems it should. It's not tied to any operation that I can isolate. It happens across all plan and layout files on both the laptop and desktop PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agenoarch Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I'm getting the blue donut also and it's worse on a plan that I used from a "Save as" file which has more than one problem with it. Sal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwideziner Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 read Bills comments at post #4 As a computer gets older more and more crap builds up, this slows your computer down. Also whith each update of CA it can do more so has to do more calculations internally for some operations, I see the donut ocassionaly also but my computer was new fo I thinkk X3. I will have to replace in 6mnths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug_Park Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 It is hard to say what is going on. If the problem isn't just in Chief then I would start by doing basic computer maintenance. Clean out your temp folder. Scan for malware. Defrag your hard disk. Etc. There can also be problems if your internet connection is not working well. The list of possible problems is endless so it is hard to tell what the problem is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJPotter Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 Vinnie, I agree with Doug Park, in that I work hard to keep my PC in peak condition and I rarely see the "blue Donut" of Windows. It may be a typo but you list only 16 Mb of RAM, didn't you mean Gb instead of Mb? (Modern Windows Operating systems will not run on so little as 16 Mb) DJP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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