I may have missed this in my All-In-One book, but what are the minimum
programs running in task manager (or its equiv) in Win 98? We have several
machine at work that people complain about being slow. I feel it is an
arbitrary measurement determined more by the amount of coffee they've drunk
than any change I could effect, but still I have to 'do something'.

Another question possibly related to slowness, is there any quick and dirty
way to check for spy-ware? I can't tell if its the fault of the network
admin or the ownership, but everyone seems to install whatever the heck they
feel like on their computers. I may be able to free up a few CPU cycles and
perhaps some bandwidth as well by finding and removing (or at least pointing
out) some spy-ware.

Thanks
haphillipsATcomicDOTcom

Did I mention the girl who was complaining of a slow machine, turns out she
was checking for new e-mail once a minute.

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The only one you have to have is Explorer, not IE, Explorer.
Thanks for that confusion MS. Anti-virus would be nice too.

Howard Phillips wrote:
> I may have missed this in my All-In-One book, but what are the minimum
> programs running in task manager (or its equiv) in Win 98? We have several
> machine at work that people complain about being slow. I feel it is an
> arbitrary measurement determined more by the amount of coffee they've drunk
> than any change I could effect, but still I have to 'do something'.
>
> Another question possibly related to slowness, is there any quick and dirty
> way to check for spy-ware? I can't tell if its the fault of the network
> admin or the ownership, but everyone seems to install whatever the heck they
> feel like on their computers. I may be able to free up a few CPU cycles and
> perhaps some bandwidth as well by finding and removing (or at least pointing
> out) some spy-ware.
>
> Thanks
> haphillipsATcomicDOTcom
>
> Did I mention the girl who was complaining of a slow machine, turns out she
> was checking for new e-mail once a minute.
>
>

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On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 04:18:30 GMT, "Howard Phillips"
<Howard.Phillips@removethis.cosmic.com> wrote:

Explorer alone is all you need.... One piece of spyware has been showing
up lately with a lot of my customers - aornum. It comes from IWON.com. A
free program, Spybot Search & Destroy, took care of it. You can get it
here:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fi...id,22262,00.asp

BulletProofSoft.com also has a nice spyware removal program for $29.

http://www.bulletproofsoft.com/download.html


Oh.... and if you come in to work really early and substitute decaf for
regular coffee, everyone will be happy.

>I may have missed this in my All-In-One book, but what are the minimum
>programs running in task manager (or its equiv) in Win 98? We have several
>machine at work that people complain about being slow. I feel it is an
>arbitrary measurement determined more by the amount of coffee they've drunk
>than any change I could effect, but still I have to 'do something'.
>
>Another question possibly related to slowness, is there any quick and dirty
>way to check for spy-ware? I can't tell if its the fault of the network
>admin or the ownership, but everyone seems to install whatever the heck they
>feel like on their computers. I may be able to free up a few CPU cycles and
>perhaps some bandwidth as well by finding and removing (or at least pointing
>out) some spy-ware.
>
>Thanks
>haphillipsATcomicDOTcom
>
>Did I mention the girl who was complaining of a slow machine, turns out she
>was checking for new e-mail once a minute.

LOL

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On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 04:18:30 GMT, "Howard Phillips"
<Howard.Phillips@removethis.cosmic.com> wrote:

>I may have missed this in my All-In-One book, but what are the minimum
>programs running in task manager (or its equiv) in Win 98? We have several
>machine at work that people complain about being slow. I feel it is an
>arbitrary measurement determined more by the amount of coffee they've drunk
>than any change I could effect, but still I have to 'do something'.

Do a search on the web for msconfig "startup items"...that'll give you
a list. Usually, as far as I know, the minimum is Explorer, systray,
and AV software, plus a firewall if you are on the internet and have
no hardware firewall.

Tom

>
>Another question possibly related to slowness, is there any quick and dirty
>way to check for spy-ware? I can't tell if its the fault of the network
>admin or the ownership, but everyone seems to install whatever the heck they
>feel like on their computers. I may be able to free up a few CPU cycles and
>perhaps some bandwidth as well by finding and removing (or at least pointing
>out) some spy-ware.
>
>Thanks
>haphillipsATcomicDOTcom
>
>Did I mention the girl who was complaining of a slow machine, turns out she
>was checking for new e-mail once a minute.
>

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