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In watching the task mgr table – the most active tasks appear to be outlook.exe, winword.exe,pctsSvc.exe

Outlook is fluctuating from 00 to 40% – I have a relatively noisy hard drive and I can hear accesses being made that seems to correspond to Outlook

Is there a mechanism in Outlook to regulate how often it goes out to check for mail? I have Outlook checking GMAIL and Hotmail currently.

I realize this should be in Outlook forum, but I said I would share findings in this forum.

Tom

Yes I did – no hangups so far
Tom

I normally run with approx 1,200 mb of storage available. Haven’t run a defrag in a while

I will scrape some of the junk off the C drive – see if that helps.

I have an external hard drive – so it won’t be a problem to move a bunch of stuff offline.

Thanks for all of the head scratching – if I magically find what is going on – I will let everyone know

Thanks

Tom

available memory 10242064 bytes

Tom

Slot ‘DIMM_4’ is Empty
Slot ‘DIMM_3’ is Empty
Slot ‘DIMM_2’ has 1024 MB
Slot ‘DIMM_1’ has 1024 MB
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 116.59 GB 31.37 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 39.65 GB 25.39 GB free

This is off belarc advisor’s current profile

Tom

Bob

Everything seems to be recorded on the reboot – nothing prior to pulling the plug

Tom

Thanks

Tom

Renaming the file solved the problem. I now have a new Profile and the renamed one.

What is the impact of staying with the new profile – will I have to reenter passwords and userids that I had before? (I tested at least one other web site and didn’t see anything different – my bookmarks all seem to still be valid in ff)

Tom

Removed msn butterfly using add / remove programs and that got rid of the task bar icon – reboot removed secunia psi stuff

I think that solves the problem – Thanks

Tom

For some reason – this morning’s AVG scan only scanned approx 1/2 of the items that were scanned 24 hours previously – I am starting a complete scan with AVG – will take a while.

Evidently Firefox was in the process of updating itself to the new version – once I backed out of everything and rbooted – everything worked out all right.

Anyone need six copies of macromedia flash player install package?

I had a similar problem a while back and it was a setting on AVG – don’t remember what.

I’m not sure how I changed it – I may have had to reinstall AVG

Tom

No – I don’t recall what it was – I was googling something and went through several unfamiliar sites earlier in the morning

Tom

I am pretty sure they were all connected – my anti-virus / spyware runs between 1 and 4 each am and the day before there were no indications of any problems

Tom

I use a software package from

http://www.registryoptimizer.com/search/De…B11gosearch-aro

It automatically cleans out dead links – you might want to try it

Tom