Evening all

Recently i have had a few probs with the speed my laptop runs at and have been trying to find out why. One of the things i have been watching is the CPU usage (in task manager) which even when all i have done is switch the computer on is at 50%-55%. As soon as i do anything this raises to at least 70% and often 100%. I noticed it says just by turning the laptop on i have 46 processes running. Is this normal? the laptop is a toshiba with a 3.06ghz processor and 512 Mb memory.

Fundamentalist

46 running procceses is not excessive but CPU usage is. If nothing is running then the CPU usage should settle down to well below 10%.

Click on the proccesses tab in task manager, then click twice on the heading of the CPU column to bring the proccess with the highest CPU usage to the top, then investigate them.

Optimist

thanks for that - it appears there are two main processes running, both which have a figure in the cpu column of about 50. task manager and explorer both have a value of 2 everything else is zero.

the two processes are:

1) ud_ligfit_Release - this is a cancer research project which i have running in the background and hasnt caused me probs before

2) System Idle Process

The one program i am having the most probs with is ladbrokes poker (which i have been using for years). when i log in this takes up 97 of my cpu


How do i look into this further

Fundamentalist

If you are running UD agent then this will always keep your CPU usage at 100% or 50 % if you have a hyperthreading proccessor.

I've never used the ladbrooks program so can't comment but I'm sure that someone else will be able to help there.

Optimist

many thanks - i am running an HT processor

Fundamentalist, system idle just mops up all the processor time that is not being used so shows a high value when nothing else is using CPU. One word of caution but only minor, running distributed programs like UD on laptops can cause them to get a bit hot, its not normally a problem but they tend to be designed with the assumption that they wont be running at full power all the time.

UD should not slow other programs down as it should give up resource when other progs need it.

If you think your machine is still slow I suggest you turn of the UD prog for a while and see what the performance is like. I dont know the UD client but most of these projects update themselvs when newer work units and program versions are available, it could be that this has happened and that the newer version has some problems. Also have a look at the project web site and see if others have reported problems.

Spacemans warning re overheating should be taken notice of. However, I have been running UD agent 24/7 for nearly 3 years on an older Toshiba laptop. It's still going fine although I did get through 2 Tosh hard disks in 18 months. I solved that by fitting an Hitachi HD and have had no problems.

UD does generate a lot of disk activity, one of the reasons I also wouldn't recommend using it on a laptop unless you're pretty much through with it.

Has anyone experience of automating the response on a web page
i.e. event 1 - mimic left click on button "A"; event 2 mimic left click on button "b"?

I have been able to navigate the way through a particular web site but I am stumped on one page that has two input type = "image" src=button1.gif name=but1 and src=button2.gif name=but2

From my research I am assuming that the handling next_process.asp will check for a non empty value of the x and/or y coordinates of the left mouse click on the relevant button image (but1.x<>nil or but2.x<>nil)

Does any one know how to generate this in VB? The .Click method does not seem to accept any parameters.

I have asked this on www.experts-exchange.com which has been a very rich source of help previously, but no luck this time.

skg

Where cam i get that auto-refresh which sits in your toolbar giving optios of times?

Yrefresher

Cheers.Think i asked you last time:-)

Have just been looking at the new Google Search Tool for one's own computer.

I wasn't too sure about the following message which is a tickable choice after download:

[]"Enable search over secure web pages (HTTPS)
Google Desktop Search will store secure web pages that you view and make them searchable."

Any thoughts?

If it's installed on a shared computer you are able to use it to view every yahoo type email sent or read by anyone using the PC I believe! I think it logs all the temp internet files in the cache and AOL Instant Messenger chats ?
That might cause a few divorces!

Well it depends what secure web pages you access, DocProc. I guess bank statements etc. would become searchable and perhaps viewable by someone who knew where to find them amongst the Google files. Not sure it would be particularly useful, and it is a possible security risk.

i have a problem with WORD,
cannot see a pasted picture or word art in the box,but when in print preview it is there,looks like the pictures or word art text is hiding in the background,
not used WORD for a long time so a bit rusty,

many thanks

steve

Ive got bastard probs with NIS 2005. I want to uninstall the WHOLE lot.But there are still residues left when i do. Works fine normally just a wee prob. but cant re-install clean and dont want to format. Yet!

scussy, I also know very little about Word but I recently had the same problem which turned out to be that the image was too big for Word to handle correctly (although it printed fine).

Iain - I used this when a friend had problems - it more or less worked ;-(

Situation:
You have come to this document because:
--You tried to uninstall Norton Internet Security or Norton Personal Firewall 2005 from Windows 2000 or XP using Windows Add/Remove Programs and the uninstall failed....................etc.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2004093015165236?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=4&Src=

Iain

If you look on the Norton site, they should have a removal tool. It's probably well hidden.