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Name: Chris Date: August 22, 2001 at 17:04:22 Pacific
Comment:
I cleared everything in "cntl-alt-del", when into MSCONFIG-startup ang unchecked everything which should leave me with just explorer running. My question is, the hard disk light still flickers (is beind accessed) when nothing is going on, Is it possible than there is some kind of program running in stealth mode? and if so, how do I find it?
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: August 22, 2001 at 17:12:06 Pacific
Reply:
Could be spyware. Or something loaded in autoexec.bat that doesn't show in msconfig such as some virus protection software.
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Response Number 2
Name: Beamer Date: August 22, 2001 at 17:39:57 Pacific
Reply:
AdAware is a pretty good, free program for finding/removing spyware/adware. You can download it at: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/downloads.html
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Response Number 3
Name: Motion Date: August 22, 2001 at 17:49:41 Pacific
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You can always download a firewall program. Maybe someone is trying to access your computer or a program is trying to access the internet. I use ZoneAlarm and the link is
http://zonealarm.com/zap26_za_grid.html
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Response Number 4
Name: WhitPhil Date: August 22, 2001 at 18:25:28 Pacific
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I'm willing to bet that you have Windows managing your swapfile. When you do, it is doing periodic adjustments and preparations, during idle time. As soon as you move the mouse or start something, the activity should stop.
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Summary: Well that all sounds reasonable, but still nobody told me if it's really true Windows98 takes up so much RAM, I'm still curious about that. And not for nothing but because from eversince I bought this...
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