That is your drive indexing service. Does your girlfriend have a large and/or fragmented drive? You can turn that service off. Check out this guy’s page for a really god breakdown of all the services and what you can do about them.
Off to IMHO, whose technical abilities I trust completely.
Upgraded from 98 to XP last week…almost everything seems to work OK for me, and I’ve got old, old printers. The only thing that doesn’t work is my D-Link Wireless Network adapters.
D-Link hasn’t been very helpful, either. “Yeah, those adapters just don’t work with XP. Yeah, I know, we sell 'em as an XP product, but we know they don’t actually work with XP or anything. Nope, I don’t have any idea how you go about sending them back. Have a nice day.”
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- XP is no more stable than anything else, it’s just a matter of if it happens to work with what you’ve got. No operating system has a crash-proof money-back guarantee, and there’s a reason for that.
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- XP is no more stable than anything else, it’s just a matter of if it happens to work with what you’ve got. No operating system has a crash-proof money-back guarantee, and there’s a reason for that.
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- As for XP, haven’t tried it, won’t until I have to, may never have to. Aside from the un-security and the DRM features, the fact that it “requires” far more memory to run than any earlier Win or Linux while doing nothing new that’s useful seems to indicate to me that it’s a P.O.S.
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Hmm, instead of starting a new thread, I’ll ask this minor XP question here, I know a fair bit about Windows and whatnot, but damned if I can figure this out.
In the system tray, where it displays icons of LAN, dialup connection, volume control and whatnot, I have a recurring problem of the icon not actually showing up, even when its specified to show up in ‘properties’ eg, the LAN icon often doesn’t turn up, same with the ‘connected’ icon for dialup, etc. Next boot it might show up, it might not.
Yes it is turned on to show in taskbar.
No its not the ‘hide inactive icons in system tray option’
Taskbar locked or unlocked, doesn’t make a difference, it shouldn’t lock the icons from showing anyhow.
Anyone have a clue?
My problems are 1 my vurtural memory is more than ram I have any bad effects from this ?
- When I use the start menu it pops up and then freezes my computer from 5 minutes on and then it slowly unfreezes and thne does every thing at once
Note I’m possibly using a version of xp that fell off the internet and or truck
rynn: Heh. If someone here can figure that out, maybe they can figure out why in the world ‘Add/Remove Programs’ will show up under ‘classic’ view, but not the ‘new’ one? (Amongst other things that should be there… grrr…) :rolleyes:
nightshadea: For #1: the only ‘bad’ effect I’m aware of is that with virtual memory, essentially WinXP (or whatever OS) is treating a bit of your hard drive as RAM. (Techie stuff glossed over to keep non-techies eyes from glossing over.) So, when WinXP needs to use it, things will slow down a lot. This may be related to #2: what kind of vid card do you have? WinXP’s start menu can have a lot of eye-candy associated with it: my guess is that generating the start menu is so intensive that WinXP is having to drop everything, so to speak, in order to handle it (thus the freezing up), and then gets around to doing anything else once it’s nearly done. If you know how, I’d recommend doing a ‘bare bones’ graphic setup: turn off font smoothing, etc., etc.
And as for the OP: Heh. It’s not so much me that hates XP, it’s more that XP (and just about any other OS) hates me.
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