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Originally Posted by kinetic
Marc,
a little OT,
I was puzzled once by my dome capture PC happily chugging away
getting images, with almost no CPU overhead, to suddenly being bogged down
and stalling the capture with huge HD activity and CPU use.
The culprit, Google taskbar attempting to do it's thing in the background,
as you say, whether a browser was open or not.
The only way to restore things to normal without causing the capture
/tracking/planetarium software to crash...was to unplug the ethernet
plug to the internet...
I since, have uninstalled Google taskbar..
Steve
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Not surprised that sometime background processes take valuable CPU time and can bring a machine down to its knees depending on what you're doing at the time. When I image I use a little utility called EndItAll. I've started using it on XP pro and now there's a version for Win7 64bit. It will got through all your background processes and kill them or just close them. Very handy.
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Originally Posted by Kal
I avoid those toolbars like the plague! I hate it when you install an app too quickly and forget to uncheck the box that says 'install ***** toolbar' and you end up with less browsing real estate!
I always find it funny when I look at other peoples web browsers and they have half the screen taken by useless toolbars  |
Recently I downloaded a program to monitor CPU temperature on my new lappie. The installer prompted me if I wanted to install Ask toolbar and make ask.com my default page. I said no. Installed. What do you know. Ask toolbar installed.
OS and programs have become so complicated that it's now easy for anyone to hide the junk anywhere. People wouldn't know half of the stuff that's running on their PC which makes it so easy for any mob to track and profile your online habits. Paradise city for FB, Google, Twitter and others.
Eventually people will get educated but they'll find other ways. The money involved in data collections and resale is mind boggling.