Johnny Smith wrote in message <373290F8.5955C954@telebot.net>...
>As proof of such,  close everything so that the taskbar is completely emtpy
and the only
>thing you see is the start button.  Now,  please do the three finger,
nothing left to
>lose,  windows puked again,  salute.  (Control-Alt-Delete)  There should
appear a box in
>the center of the screen.
>Look at what is listed in that box.  Each item that appears is a
thread/program of some
>sort.  These NEED to be closed/terminated.  If you think for one instant
that these
>background threads/programs are inconsequential,  Montey is going to inform
you that you
>JUST missed "computer trivia" for 500,  and that you just lost the double
jeopardy round.


Actually, most of these background processes ARE inconsequential, taking up
(on my computer) less than 1/10 of a percent of the processor time combined.
The exception?  Explorer, at 1% of processor time.

To find out how much processor time each program is using, download a
utility called WinTop.

Mark

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