Derek,
Thanks for the suggestion. The system on which I have themost trouble has
Windows 95 on it. If Windows 95 has a similar program to the one you
mentioned in Windows 98, I am not aware of it.
Ron
At 11:24 AM 7/18/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Ron,
>Do you have windows 98 or 95? IF YOU have 98, there is a JFW friendly
>way!
>1) go to your run menu.
>2) type msconfig and press enter.
>3) go to the start-up tab.
>4) uncheck the programs that you don't want running.
>5) press OK.
>
>Now the programs that you unchecked will be permanently stopped from
>running at start-up until you go back in to msconfig and recheck them
>again. Hope this helps.
>
>Derek.
>P. S. I believe windows 95 has a similar program, however I'm not sure
>about this.
>--
>Derek Isobe
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>
>Ron Milliman wrote:
>>
>> Colleagues, myself and many others have experienced some very mysterious
>> system lockups on a regular bases, programs not running because the system
>> cannot activate a particular dll file, etc. I was told that it was JFW
>> causing conflicts. However, I have discovered that most of the time I can
>> minimize or eliminate the problems by getting rid of two programs that run
>> in the background and are loaded automatically upon bootup. The first one
>> I get rid of is the HPBUTTONMGR program which is associated with my HP
>> scanner. I hope to solve this one shortly by switching to a USB port HP
>> scanner. The second of these programs I get rid of is the FINDFAST
>> program. The problem is that if you are using JFW, you have no way of
>> getting rid of these programs by using JFW to help you. I boot up my
>> system, and once it is booted up, I immediately hit the alt-ctrl-del key
>> combination to bring up the list of programs running in the background, and
>> then, I hit the letter "h" which takes me to the HPBUTTONMGR and then, I
>> hit the tab key once which puts me on "end task" and hit enter. At that
>> point, I am back on my desktop or wherever I started. Since I have only
>> one program in this list that starts with the letter "h," I can get away
>> with this. If I had more than one program that started with the letter
>> "h," then, I would have to be careful to not get rid of the wrong one! I
>> do the same thing to get rid of the FINDFAST program with one exception; I
>> have to hit the enter key twice, instead of only once, and then, I am back
>> on the desktop or wherever I started.
>>
>> So, if someone wants to blame JFW for your lockup problems, like many
>> technicians want to do, you might test what I just described. Of course,
>> you may not be using an HP scanner, but you might have some other program
>> running in the background that is contributing to your lockups.
>>
>> Ron Milliman
>>
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