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Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 6:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Typing 'Ctrl-Alt-Del' where? Pardon my ignorance!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Have that too. Ran spybot again and it did come up with some stuff, so hopefully that's it.

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vee hit the ctrl alt and del keys on your computers keyboard. :o) only once though.

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 6:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie have you tried increasing your internet explorers cache?

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 6:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
A friend suggested Sygate Firewall to me Texannie. He's a computer guy and I told him I already have ZoneAlarm but he says this is additional protection.

I also have Spybot and Adaware.

Lol...all this stuff...feels like I'm trying to protect Fort Knox! ;)

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 7:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Busy night at the help desk...

I feel so foolish...I have to hit those keys all the time, which is probably very telling.

Here is the requested list:
Explorer
Ccapp
Loadqm
Ipmon32
Instantaccess
Remind32
Systray
Rnaapp

No rush, guys. I'll check in again in the a.m.
Night now!


Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 7:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hehehehehe, Dra, I see you quoting my neighbor's prodigious amount of spyware. I swear I did not make that up. It was simply amazing.

Texannie, Ad-Aware is not something that runs all the time. It is something you pro-actively run after you download it, whenever you think you might have a problem. In other words, it doesn't run automatically. You have to go tell it to run a scan. I run mine every few days, and I always have about 30 suspect files, probably most of which are harmless cookies, but I keep them deleted anyway.

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 7:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vee ccApp is a part of Norton AntiVirus don't worry about that one.


Loadqm is something microsoft puts on your pc at start up. Lots of people complain about it. But, not sure if ya wanna get rid of it or not. Windows will run fine without it and will likely start and run a little faster without it.


IPmon32 basically monitors your dsl connection or other internet connections.

InstantAccess could be lots of things, but, the most common thing I can know of is that it downloads ads, usually pop-ups. It's removable... so ya might wanna remove it??

Remind32 got a hp do ya? Well Remind32 is a HP product registration program. You can get rid of that if ya want to.


Rnaap Windows Dial-Up Networking application.


You might want to try some of the files I've listed links to in my free files and tips thread.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 8:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vee: I also found references to InstantAccess being a part of an OCR program for a scanner. If you happen to have a scanner connected, that may be why you have InstantAccess running. The rest, as Jed pointed out, are pretty common and none of these are what I was hoping you would find in there.

Were there any other programs in there that you needed to scroll down to see? It just sounds like something is running that is preventing you from accessing the rest of the screen.

Let me know what you find please.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 8:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jed, I was told to keep it at a minimun, but I will increase it to see if it helps.
Juju, I have set my adaware to run at start up..since my puter has been freezing up alot, it's been starting up at bunch! LOL

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 10:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well now, Texannie, you've taught me something. I didn't know you could set it for that. I might look into it. Thanks.

Mags
Member

06-26-2001

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 5:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Dra! I'll give it a try and let you know how it goes.

Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 6:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well that was all very interesting...I didn't know anything about those programs, with the exception of Explorer and Systray. Thanks, I will get right on it.

Dra, I do have a scanner. No, I listed everything without having to scan past anything.

Okay, Jed, I'll check out the other thread.

Thanks for all your help. I'll let you know if things improve.


Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 6:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Jed, for sending me over to the free files thread. I found the F11 trick for maximizing the screen when in IE. Works for me very nicely.

Jed245
Member

11-01-2002

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
anytime vee. :o)

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 2:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hrumpf..ok..there was some spyware (got to remember to update!) it's still happening!

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 3:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's a little snippet I found while surfing, Annie.


Why does your computer system continuously hang or freeze?


This problem may occur when too many programs are simultaneously opened and the computers RAM and/or hard drive are unable to keep up with the demand placed on the computer. It could also mean a conflict exists between two programs running simultaneously, or the hard drive is faulty. Viruses also play a part in causing sporadic problems to occur on a computer.




Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 3:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
so how do you fix it???????????waaaaaaaahhhhhhh
usually just have email and explorer open.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 5:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie: Have we discussed with you about setting a fixed virtual memory size on your computer?

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 6:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    


This seemed kinda apropos! ;)

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 6:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Don't think so Dra.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 7:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dra, that is funny because all this time that Tex was asking, I kept thinking "well isn't this the same problem I had and you told me to change my virtual memory!" I didn't even think that you would remember the conversation and assume Tex had been the one !!! I forget how very many of these questions you answer every day and they must all run together for you. Sorry about that. I should have spoken up sooner as it certainly seems to have solved my problem!

Texannie, the answer is back HERE in a Dra message to me on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 5:38 pm

ETA: read my messages and Dra's before and after that one to get the whole story!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 7:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Jan!

Halfunit
Member

09-02-2001

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 5:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Newbie XP user here with a couple of questions!

First... With Win98, I was able to create a custom toolbar with most of my desktop icons. I was then able to delete the desktop icons to clean it up and just use the icons from the toolbar to launch programs.

When I try this with XP, the icons that I delete from the desktop are also removed from the toolbar.

Any way around this?


Second, I'm using Outlook Express with 2 identities. When I go to switch identities, the program closes right after asking me if I would like to keep the current internet connection. If I try to launch the program again, I get an hourglass and then nothing. About 10 seconds later, there is a ding-dong noise from somewhere (not the Domino's delivery guy), but nothing happens.

Uh... help? :-)


Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 5:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
so far, it's working but i don't really want to announce it