More about Task Manager

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For quite a while now I had noticed that my notebook while running idle for
five, ten minutes would go into spontanious activity and as soon as I would
move the mouse the activity would stop.This does not happen all the time only
occasionally. A look on task Manager showed 4 intances of svchost.exe (now I
have six). Wesley Vogel was quite helpfull in showing me how to find out what
each instance of svchost.exe controls last weekend.
I then left task manager running in the process screen, with the screen
saver off, I found the real culprit....dfrgntsf.exe, using about 50 megs of
memory, and after a 50% surge"looking at the graph later" very little cpu
usage. Any movement with the mouse and the keyboard and everything
stops.There is nothing of value on the event viewer. Since I don't defrag on
a timetable, my notebook doesn't run all the time, Everything is done Manualy
even the updates.
I was wondering if I should put tskmgr.exe on manual in the services
configuration? or would someone out there have a good fix for this pesky
application.
In the meantime I think I'll try shutting it down temporarily with the Task
Manager end Process function.......

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I Meant ((Task Scheduler)) in service configurations in my first
post................................

"Andre" wrote:

> For quite a while now I had noticed that my notebook while running idle for
> five, ten minutes would go into spontanious activity and as soon as I would
> move the mouse the activity would stop.This does not happen all the time only
> occasionally. A look on task Manager showed 4 intances of svchost.exe (now I
> have six). Wesley Vogel was quite helpfull in showing me how to find out what
> each instance of svchost.exe controls last weekend.
> I then left task manager running in the process screen, with the screen
> saver off, I found the real culprit....dfrgntsf.exe, using about 50 megs of
> memory, and after a 50% surge"looking at the graph later" very little cpu
> usage. Any movement with the mouse and the keyboard and everything
> stops.There is nothing of value on the event viewer. Since I don't defrag on
> a timetable, my notebook doesn't run all the time, Everything is done Manualy
> even the updates.
> I was wondering if I should put tskmgr.exe on manual in the services
> configuration? or would someone out there have a good fix for this pesky
> application.
> In the meantime I think I'll try shutting it down temporarily with the Task
> Manager end Process function.......
>
>