Please try to find this out. I know their is a power toy that lets you
safely controll what does, and doesn't start up, by adding, or deleating the
intries form the registery: but, I don't know what this program is.
----- Original Message -----
From: Derek Isobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Ron Milliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: System lockups
> 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
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web page: http://home.istar.ca/~disobe
>
>
> 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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