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Jaxon   11-30-2000 at 07:26:35 PM

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

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girish   11-30-2000 at 07:44:48 PM
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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

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Jaxon   11-30-2000 at 07:53:58 PM
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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

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Lucol   11-30-2000 at 10:42:20 PM
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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.

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Jaxon   12-01-2000 at 02:17:30 AM
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sorry , kinda new here , how do you get to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

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Jaxon   12-01-2000 at 03:42:34 AM
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can any one answer this please!!!!!!!!

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jg38141   12-01-2000 at 08:55:24 AM
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click start- go to run and type in "regedit" then hit enter.
From there follow the above string.

"Are you saying that I can dodge bullets?"

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