robinsdale
Programmer
Hi - I have a Pentium 650 with 120meg of RAM. It seems to be busy with some as-yet undisclosed activity - every 3 seconds the mouse cursor turns into an hourglass. When I look in the task manager (I think that's what it's called - Ctrl-Alt-Del brings it up) I see the following - read from bottom to top, anything in [] are my assumptions:
Enternet [ISP]
Printray
Systray
ShutdownAware
Mixer [Sound]
Tbpt
Osa [Office??]
Dragdiag
Mapisp32
Navapw32
Zonealarm [firewall]
ICQ
MSOffice Shortcut Bar
Explorer
and this browser window. I also had an instance of Word and Excel open, as well as Outlook Express and Outlook (Office) - when I shut them all down it stopped completely, but when I brought Excel up, which included a modal data-entry form, it started with the 3-sec hourglass again. Shutting down Excel this time did not get rid of this behaviour. This behaviour does seem to adversely affect how the system runs.
Can anyone identify what this is (what is running, either as TSR or overtly) that is causing my system to slow down so?
Thanks in advance...
Cheers,
Robyn
Enternet [ISP]
Printray
Systray
ShutdownAware
Mixer [Sound]
Tbpt
Osa [Office??]
Dragdiag
Mapisp32
Navapw32
Zonealarm [firewall]
ICQ
MSOffice Shortcut Bar
Explorer
and this browser window. I also had an instance of Word and Excel open, as well as Outlook Express and Outlook (Office) - when I shut them all down it stopped completely, but when I brought Excel up, which included a modal data-entry form, it started with the 3-sec hourglass again. Shutting down Excel this time did not get rid of this behaviour. This behaviour does seem to adversely affect how the system runs.
Can anyone identify what this is (what is running, either as TSR or overtly) that is causing my system to slow down so?
Thanks in advance...
Cheers,
Robyn