re: A time lag problem
Thursday, August 23, 2007 at 8:43 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Karla Heidt
(38 messages posted)
With a fresh bootup, with only the programs loading that are set to load on startup
(explorer, etc. the ones I mentioned in my previous post) the system resources are
72%.
My husband tried disabling everything except explorer and systray from running on
startup, and rebooted but that didn't fix the situation.
On Thursday, August 23, 2007 at 5:16 am, Keith Stanier wrote:
>Well Karla
>
>mediadet is Media Detector associated with your sound card.
>teatimer is for your SpyBot.
>ctnotify is Disc Detector. For Creative sound cards. Detects when you insert
>a CD, DVD, etc. Why you need this running beats me.
>point32 is for Microsoft Intellipoint mouse.
>ashwebsv is a process belonging to the Avast Internet Security Suite, and
>protects your computer from Internet-bound threats.
>loadqm is used when you install MSN Explorer/Messenger.
>
>You need explorer and systray running all the time anyway.
>
>Those seem quite normal to me. There is an article on LOADQM.EXE
>here.
>
>As for the System Resources when Windows first starts up just right-click on My
Computer
>and have a look in the Performance tab under System Resources to see what percentage
>is free. When I startup my comp with only explorer, stimon and systray running it
>shows 74% free.
>
>Now I'm on the Internet and have Windows Explorer running as well as Loadqm its
showing
>52% free. I don't use MSN Messenger so I don't really need Loadqm running. But I've
>never suffered from Windows running very slow and I have 500Mb RAM. Even when I
had
>250Mb RAM it never run slow.
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