Another good thing to do is download autoruns from the sysinternals site at Microsoft and look at all of the "crap", especially from adobe, that is kicked off when you login. Turn off everything from adobe, ati catalyst and anything else staying in memory and calling home, reboot and see if everything works normally. If so, rerun autoruns and try turning more non-Microsoft/Windows stuff.
If you have installed tortoisesvn and are not using it, uninstall it, its unimaginable the number of entries you will find in autoruns associated with it (because it is a shell extension). I turn off the highly graphic mixers that sit in the notification area (I am slowly learning not to say systray) but almost everything you have sitting in the notification area that isn't from Microsoft is a small program continually running, looking for messages from the internet or from you. If you can live without them, click and see if there is an option to prevent usage at startup. If not and you don't want the function at all, uninstall it. Otherwise you can turn it off with autoruns. 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Michael Walker <va...@portcredit.net>wrote: > Correct. Your best bet is to turn of scripting on your browser. > However, that is a pain in the butt, as most websites just won't run > without scripting. > > Also, make sure you turn of scripting in your Acrobat reader. It is on by > default and there is no reason for it to be on for 99% of us. > > > Mike > > > Neal Campbell wrote: > >> Rudy, >> >> When a simple firewall consumer device from XYWall can protect you against >> mime, outgoing, incoming, specific websites, etc. I just don't see the >> issue. Your advice is good in the sense it is belts and suspenders and a >> coat so you are covered. But when the added products cause side effects, >> you >> have to balance the value of risk versus reward. >> >> I think a lot of us are aware of this and choose with some idea what we >> are >> doing. >> >> But for general consumption, your advice is hard to beat. >> >> >> Neal Campbell >> Abroham Neal Software >> www.abrohamnealsoftware.com >> (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER >> >> Amateur Radio: K3NC >> Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ >> DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com >> Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flex-radio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
