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Name: MissMe Date: July 11, 2006 at 17:28:26 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: 3.0/512 Product: Medion
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My computer is set up with 5 users. My user account in the Admin account. Even after a clean reboot, if I log in, then immediatley log off and "switch user" it will show that I have "1 program running" even though I haven't opened anything. This just started rather recently and I am wondering how I can figure out what is running. I've looked at task manager and that shows 50 processes but I am not sure how to figure out what this one program is that keeps "running" whenever I log on. Is there another way to find out? I have run AVG, Spybot Search and Destroy and AdAware and they show nothing. Thanks Me
Name: terii Date: July 11, 2006 at 18:05:52 Pacific
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Look here. It will list all of your apps running. You may be surprised at what you find.
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Response Number 2
Name: HangPilot Date: July 11, 2006 at 18:38:55 Pacific
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you are most likely running anti-virus, check this first by doing a 'disable' on IT and do a restart and see if that's it - gl Dman
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Response Number 3
Name: MissMe Date: July 12, 2006 at 03:20:18 Pacific
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Thank you for your responses. All the running processes in Task manager seem fine. I will check my AV next. My AV never used to show up as "running" though...
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