slowday444
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So suddenly, while navigating (e.g. opening or closing tabs or functions )several applications there was an annoying beep even though I've always had "Sounds" disabled through the Control Panel. So I research it and there were several solutions, one being disabling "Beeps" through Device Manager, which I did. That turned the beeps into the loudest gong you ever heard. So I restore to a snapshot (Comodo Time Machine) I made the first thing this morning (the beep had been there since yesterday) and now it's gone. Don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth but I'd sure like to know what created it and how I got rid of it!
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I love Firefox and extensions. Kind of like moding a car. So a while ago I changed CM's schedule to every 10 minutes on this old XP. Like I said, been using it since Shane developed it.
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Any opinions? Thanks!
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Unfortunately it requires software to enable it as there's no know registry "tweaking" that I know of to deal with them for applications that don't have a -hide feature built in.
Fortunately I was using the software, just never noticed the icon.
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No reg location that I know of having looked for it diligently in the past. Some programs that normally load a systray icon allow hiding the icon completely, but they must support it using via an additional command line in the run section such as:
-hide
/hide
Ok, thanks Andavari! It could be worse. I was at least able to add the keyboard settings to the C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Start Menu\Programs\Startup folder after disabling the annoying SetPoint startup and its splash screen. I feel Logitech makes very high quality peripherals but, at least on my XP machine, there software installs drive me nuts and never do completely finish. Then, if I remove any of their apps from my USB ports to clean or add something to the tower I get the "New Hardware found" annoyance until Mr. XP and Logitech decide to cooperate.
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Anyone have a clue as to what part of the registry taskbar icons for applications would be in? I suspect it would entail changing a value from 1 to 0 type of a deal. I need Logitech Keyboard Settings to load so I can use my customized hotkeys but I don't feel like looking at the icon and hate the big Windows arrow even more if I'd choose to hide it. Thank you!
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Thank you for the replies! Un-checking Smooth Scrolling solved the problem.
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What i mean is, if I move the mouse wheel, or the scrolling tabs (on the page) or the arrow keys, the page just keeps hopping up and down, actually losing control of it until it stops. Albeit, I only have a Pent 4, XP SP3 system. The desktop is hardwired to a Linksys WRT54G router. A long time ago I installed a VisionTek X1550 PCI card (motherboard can't accept PCI Express) and my LCD monitor is attached to it. My cable modem speed is 5mbps which I generally do test at that or even slightly better. This problem has been around for years and only occurs with certain sites. Perfect example is at V3.co.uk. So is there any Firefox, graphics card or monitor setting that I could change to rectify this behavior? If there is, I'm going to kick myself for not asking this question years ago! Thank You!
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My Avast blocks it and others getting the same result so be careful if it isn't a false positive.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=285245
Has been verified as FP!
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Gimp is pretty much the same as PS. If you googled gimp then you would of found loads of tutorials.
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Thank you much!
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I googled it and there seems to be some apps that turn the whole image into a cartoon. Apparently you can do it with photo shop, which I don't own but I couldn't find anything else. I skimmed gimp but didn't notice it being mentioned in its feature list. Thank You!
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But it only calls once/month, correct?
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I use an external HD for my desktop backups but use DVDs to back up my laptop. I've never used "RWs". Can you use RWs? Do you have to erase them some how first? I do full backups as opposed to incrementals. Thank You!
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So is Mr. Anomaly some sort of operating system cop or something? No wait...OS dictator perhaps?
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Appreciate the suggestions!
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I can't say I have slowday, but as a stopgap for now if this maxing out lasts for any length of time, you could stop the "Automatic Updates" service from running, and then activate it again when the next cycle of patches is due.
Not a solution, but will prevent the CPU maxing out until a solution is found. Leastways it should.
Googling brings up examples of this issue quite some time back, and it was supposed to be fixed by an MS patch. Can't find much at all in way of recent examples, but someone else might.
This may do it!
http://lounge.windowssecrets.com/index.php?showtopic=777777&st=0&gopid=856173entry856173
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Lately, on an XP SP3 desktop, at boot this is jumping to some 500k of RAM usage, thus running my 1G of RAM to 90% with all the other processes running. Avast 5 (free) and Windows Defender are the other security apps that run real time. Has anyone else noticed this lately? Thank You!
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Anyone else have that issue on XP SP3?
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I'm trying it out right now on an XP machine. So far, so good. It has some nice features -- particularly if you're a fairly heavy pdf user. On occasion, I've encountered a few problems in properly rendering layered pdfs, but I think Nitro is aware of this and plans to address/add the "missing component(s)" in a future release. Truth is that it's a little too soon for me to give it a thumbs up or thumbs down.
I'm a long time PDF-Xchange user but this one just caught my eye today. I'm going to give it a spin this week.
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For the past several weeks my XP SP3 desktop has started to forget my power settings. I've successfully completed the fix that the included link suggests but after several browser sessions it will again "forget" to power down the monitor. I can not find a correlation but I can't help but feel that there must be some software conflict ongoing. Help would be appreciated!
http://www.itexperience.net/2008/03/02/howto-repair-power-schemes/comment-page-2/
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So this at least temporarily solved the problem. Anyone care to expand? Thank You!
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This is a response to the discussion in posts #457 through #461 of the thread "Freeware !"
http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=17921
I thought it was better to discuss Cleanmem in a separate thread.
So, cleanmem is a memory manager that uses Task scheduler to start every 30 minutes (the default setting). But the user can change that value by simply going to Task Scheduler and change that setting to whatever he/she wants it to be.
After it has started and has performed it tasks the program closes and doesn't start again until it's (re-)started again by Task Scheduler. Just take a look at Task Scheduler and you'll see Cleanmem has added a task to the Task list.
To be able to see what Cleanmem does the user can tell the program to record its actions in a log, a text file. That log reveals which processes (as in displayed in Task Manager) are curtailed in their memory usage by Cleanmem and by how much. And the default setting is that Cleanmem reduces/collapses the size of the System File Cache as well.
I DO see a significant difference in performance ! Previously, it could take Real Player a significant amount of time to start playing a *.mp3 file but after installing Cleanmem that time has been reduced significantly by, say 50 to 90%.
Cleanmem can be downloaded here:
http://www.pcwintech.com/cleanmem
Here the user can find a lot of additional program info.
And the most important thing: it's freeware !
I've been using it since the day Shane first offered it. I also have it scheduled to run four minutes after startup. Since I have very conservative machines: six year old Pent 4 XP with 1G RAM and an inexpensive Acer laptop (not using it now but pretty base AMD dual core processor) with Vista and 2G of RAM, I also like to view my memory usage with MemInfo. Sits in the notification area. It is rare if memory use ever exceeds 50% in either one.
Mysterious PC beep arrived and just as mysteriously departed.
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It's just a six year old Dell Pent4, XP Home SP3. The keyboard is a new Illuminated Logitech and I also have a new MS mouse. The keyboard does have a nice bunch of hot keys a few of which I've customized. I explored all the KB and mouse settings and didn't notice anything there. My suspicion is that I accidentally hit a hot key that perhaps turned the "beep" on but I also don't understand why it stopped. I've also had enabled for a long time the same beep to notify me if I accidentally hit the Caps Lock key. That is still working (it did stop when I disabled the beep in device manager) since I re-enabled the beep. Anyway I'm glad things are back to normal.