Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:37:09 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

Hope this question makes sense. I'd like to open something to see what is
running.

Been there, done that.

The Task Manager thingy magigger - right click on the Task Bar (which,
oddly enough, is an appropriate name because it actually displays
tasks) and select Task Manager.

Then, be prepared for the Wonderful Magical Journey into Arcana - The
Land of Windows Task Naming Conventions and Process Misnomers.

It's a fun world.

However, I'd look around my desktop and see what could possibly be
running. I had a similar problem with QT and iTunes - they would
start up and sit in the background, then wouldn't shut down properly
until I disabled them on startup and put them on-call as it were.

That's probably what it is - a program that starts it'self up, then
goes in to sleeper mode until called for.


PC Mag has a util called Startup Cop Pro that tells you what programs
you've installed that are actually running at startup and right
afterwards, as opposed to the Windoze "system" files, most of which are
not running "optionally." It also lets you temporarily or permanently
stop programs from running at start-up.