Questions about programs in background.
There is a background program running which seems to cause a lot of defragmentation of my C Partition (Windows 98 & major applications are in that partition). If I run Defrag a second time 10-20 minutes after it finishes, it takes 30-60 minutes to do its job again, even though I have not been using any applications.
My C partition is about 12Gigs, with about 4 Gigs used. Whatever this program is, it also interferes with Defrag, which restarts 5-6 times due to changes in partition contents. Fortunately, Defrag only takes 10-20 seconds to get back to where is was when the restart occurred.
I intend to use Google to try to identify the program in the Task List (Ctl-Alt-Delete). Perhaps one of you folks at this Forum might have some ideas.- Explorer, which we all recognize.
- Product ID: This I cannot find via Google.
- Remind32, a Rand McNally registration reminder program.
- RealPlay. Not sure why a CD music player must be running in background when I am not playing anything.
- Wpspsw. I think previous research indicated that this is required.
- Dad9. This is Corel Office Tool Bar, which I do not want to get rid of.
- Point32, Mouse & Track Ball drivers.
- Systray, which is probably not the culprit.
- Ptudfapp. Who is he?
- Expander. Who is he?
Does anybody have some thots on who the culprit is?
BTW: Remind32 is the first program I have encountered which defied msconfig. It is in the msconfig list of startup programs, but unchecking it does not get rid of it. Any thots on this?
