Control+shift+escape will get you the task manager directly. A couple of performance tweaks you may consider is disabling unused services. Many computer magazines highlight this, including Smart computing www.smartcomputing.com which is also available from NLS. In a recent issue, they went through a list of at least 10 services that could be disabled with minor impact on your system. For example, If you use your XP system in windows classic mode, you can disable the "themes service with no problem. If you are using the XP style theme, then disabling this service will result in the classic appearance. If you feel that help and support is not very helpful, you can stop and disable this service which runs all the time to free up resources. Remember, doing this will cause a message to appear when you call up help from the start menu to say something about "help and support can not run be cause the service is not running." another one that may help performance is the indexing service. This can be disabled with minimal impact. Many professionals debate on how helpful this service is, however it is a personal choice.
I offer these as possible suggestions, however you should do your own research and figure out what is right for you. /David -----Original Message----- From: Joe Lanier [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:25 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: A couple of 7.01 questions Hi, I have run into this problem when having Lotus Notes and it's instant messenger program running. One thing that kinda helped was to minimize everything using windows-m and alt-tabbing to the application I need to use. Oh, btw, to get to the task mangler, its ctrl-alt-delete. Regards.. Joe Lanier -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: A couple of 7.01 questions Good day Karyn: When I have had problems with a software synthesizer stuttering, it was always due to other processes taxing my CPU resources. If your PC is clean from malware and the such, then the challenge is trying to find out which process is taking up a lot of your CPU cycles. Task Manager can provide you with some information that might be helpful. You can call it up by pressing control+shift+tab. Under the processes tab you will have a list of all the running processes. Under the performance tab you will get some system information. Here you will need to use your mouse keys to read the text. Because of the additional requirements we have here at work, I am running about thirty more processes here when compared to at home. Vic -----Original Message----- From: Karyn Campbell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: A couple of 7.01 questions Hello all, I think I know the answer to the first question but want to ask to make sure as I plan to do this at work and don't want to use an SMA count prematurely. The second one goes to other issues. Here goes. Is 7.01 a free upgrade or patch? I suspect the answer here is yes but want to make sure of that first. The second question is will 7.01 fix stuttering issues with Eloquence? I am running 7.0 at work and having some problems with stuttering, especially in the spell checker and the print cue when the document is printing and it gives the file name and all of that. Answers to these questions would be greatly appreciated. I should add that the computer at work is 3 years old as of this summer and has recently had some RAM added to it. Unfortunately I don't know the size specifications on the thing. I think it's an HP but am not totally sure of that but will check it out. I can tell this by what's present in the Internet favorites folder as there is stuff there that any computer user does not install themselves. It comes with the machine. The machine at work is running XP pro with all updates as far as I know. Thanks. 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