Harold just search your HD for the names of the items. "realsched" is part of that "malware" RealPlayer, known to overtake a computer! That part is the auto update, which you should have disabled. Disable it from the player and it should go away. If it does not, check your Start Up folder, and look under XP Services.
"ctfmon" also doesn't need to be running until you start Office. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q282599/ I don't know if that page says how to stop it from running, but try the same things with it. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com http://ComputersCustomBuilt.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold B." Hellow again, <snip> (A word of advice for ALL software installed; always check Msconfig's "Start up" tab and uncheck all those boxes you don't need nor use. AV software, firewalls and the like need to be checked, but software like image editing, Roxio, and countless others should be unchecked) <snip> --- Clint I certainly second Clint's suggestion. When originally opening Windows XP and then adding a few programs that I need, I went to msconfig and unchecked (of course, a few at at time just to be safe), the following: apdproxy, alcxmntr, ctfmon, fm3032, HPBootOp, isburnwatcher, Ixccmon, msmsgs, ps2, Rundll32 (both of them), realsched (one remains checked; see below), and StartupMgr. The only boxes I keep checked are xlclient, avgcc, realsched, and ctfmon. The latter two, even if I uncheck them, keep returning checked. And guess what. The computer is working fine, never worked better (and I don't even know what those unchecked boxes are; might be a good learning experience to google each one of them). And maybe there are computer features that I cannot use as a result of the un-checking, but then I'll never know that, unless someone in the group tells me and spoils my happiness in my ignorance --- Harold ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
