Hi,
My Dell Studio (yeah, yeah, save the Mac cracks) has been cranky of late, particularly when streaming stuff, and since I am reluctant to put out a couple of hundred dollars to have it "tuned up", I have been trying to see what I can do on my own. This has led me to the resource monitor, a truly fascinating little gizmo, a couple of levels down in the Task Manager. The help files that are attached to it are pretty lean, and I was wondering if someone knew of a "Resource Monitor for Idiots" source. One thing that I immediately learned which was STUNNING was that mac I-tunes has a chum that it loads called AppleRemoteDevicesManager.exe which grabs 25 percent of your resources off the top and doesn't let go unless you whack it over the head with a brick. It's purpose is to manage your relationship with your mobile devices, but relentlessly demands resources even though you don't have any mobile devices. I think of it as essentially an Apple Trojan. (Ok, now, you can make Mac-cracks). Thanks, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org <http://www.cusf.org/>
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