hour glass

[Jaxon]

strange one here
p11 350 , 128 meg , abit bx2 440
after system has booted and all programs have loaded , approx.1 minute , then with out me doing anything my hour glass apears and is in the thinking mode for approx, 15 seconds,
note, ctrl/alt/del, before and after the hour glass thing, no additional programs are showen to be running,
any ideas guy's and gal's
much thks

 

[girish]

teh booting time is ok for p-ii 350, although 128M of RAM should do it a bit faster, especially if you dont have any apps loading at startup. i think u are using win98 se, and i too have noticed the same thing. the hourglass stays for a while after the desktop is displayed, for about 7-8 seconds on my p-iii 500.

it might be the issue with win98 se, but this does not have any implications other than irritation

girish

 

[Jaxon]

actually your right win98se , and now that i think about it , i think that started after i upgraded to 98se,
any other ideas would still be welcome incase win98se isn't the culprit

 

[Lucol]

Well, it's probably the registry integrity scanner something or another that W98 does on startup. You can solve your problems by getting rid of it through you're registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
There's a bunch of other junk you can delete from here too that take up RAM and system resources.

 

[Jaxon]

sorry , kinda new here , how do you get to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

 

[Jaxon]

can any one answer this please!!!!!!!!

 

[jg38141]

click start- go to run and type in "regedit" then hit enter.
From there follow the above string.

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