Haven't run AdAware for a week or more. Might have picked something up. I think I'll try that.
Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.
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SailAweigh - Apr 25, 2005 6:42:25 pm PDT #2602 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
SailAweigh - Apr 25, 2005 6:43:06 pm PDT #2603 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
"system idle" row is the percentage you have to spare
Then I should have plenty to spare, but it sure doesn't act like it.
ETA: jimi, I use Windows ME.
dcp - Apr 25, 2005 7:01:57 pm PDT #2604 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Windows' "System Performance" figure is based on more than just CPU use, but I don't know the details.
I can help translate some of the "gobbledy-gook" in Process Explorer if you like, but that's probably best done with IM.
SailAweigh - Apr 25, 2005 7:05:42 pm PDT #2605 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
dcp, I think I'm too brain dead to talk coherently about this right now. I ran AdAware, there was only 4 files to get rid of (I'd emptied my internet cache earlier to see if that helped.) One interesting thing, you can pull up a view of the "system information." It says I've got a total of 130,256k (128M) of physical memory (which is right), but that only around 3M is actually available. Now, that just does not sound right. But I can't see any processes running that are taking up massive memory!
dcp - Apr 25, 2005 7:12:03 pm PDT #2606 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
One other suggestion then, tomorrow you might run "msconfig" and have a look at what programs are being loaded at start-up.
SailAweigh - Apr 25, 2005 7:14:54 pm PDT #2607 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
run "msconfig" and have a look at what programs are being loaded at start-up.
I think that's a lot of the problem. I've got a whole handful of things that load in the right hand corner of the taskbar when I start up the computer. I want to get rid of some of them, but I don't know how.
dcp - Apr 25, 2005 7:23:08 pm PDT #2608 of 10003
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
You get there with
Start-->Run
type in
msconfig
click on the "Startup" tab
uncheck the programs you decide you don't want
click OK and re-boot.
Quicken, ZoneAlarm, PGP, McAfee, and FamilyTreeMaker all installed start-up stuff I didn't want, and multiple instances too, which caused resource problems and a few crashes. Took me a while and some tinkering, but I finally got it sorted out.
SailAweigh - Apr 25, 2005 7:31:25 pm PDT #2609 of 10003
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Holy f**k. There's all kinds of stuff starting up I didn't realize. Crap like "Money Agent". Something to do with Microsoft Money, which I don't even use! I think I can uncheck a bunch of the boxes.
ETA: Huh, some of that stuff is registry stuff. I suspect I should leave those alone. However, there's a bunch of programs I don't need to start up with my computer, like Kodak Easyshare. I got rid of a few things, however, I'll wait til tomorrow to see what effect it has. I'm to bed.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 26, 2005 4:48:39 am PDT #2610 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I'm too impatient for my tech support:
I have Quark 6.0 on a Mac running OS 10.3.9
I have recieved and error message saying I need to re-install.
I cannot find an "uninstaller".
Should I delete all the files I can find which say "quark, and then reinstall, or just go ahead and do it over the one on my machine. I really cannot mess this up, but I also really need to use Quark and I haven't had an answer to this question which I asked Friday.
Thanks!
Steph L. - Apr 26, 2005 5:14:35 am PDT #2611 of 10003
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Sophia, try re-installing over the one on your machine. That ought to do it.
Mac programs don't technically have uninstallers; you just take the whole folder and throw it in the trash. You could do that, too, if re-installing over the one on your machine doesn't work.
Also, throw away the Quark preference files, which should be in the Library folder. (Easiest thing to do is to run a search for "Quark" and then throw away any Quark files with a .plist extension. Those are preference files.)