"blackhead" <larryharson@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:a480b40b-e13a-47d4-8ad8-913fff0a75b2@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>I have an old computer which is very suseptible to applications in the
> background hogging up useage. So when using system monitor, I noticed
> that the processor useage was 100% even though nothing was running in
> the foreground. It turns out that when I run Yahoo Messenger, the
> processor useage shoots up to 100% and when i close it, it's still
> running at 100% useage.
>
> So what's going on?

I think you're possibly tackling this problem from the wrong direction. Why
not look at stopping applications running at start up?

Click on <Start><Run>
Type MSCONFIG and click on <OK>
Click on <StartUp>
This will give you a list of all the applications running at start up
Untick all those that are 'Software', 'StartUp' or 'Common Startup' (but see
exceptions below)
Don't worry you are only stopping them from running not de-installing. Any
of them can be ticked again but I work on the basis that I will start an
application when I want it and not to have everything running (taking up
valuable resource) just in case.

You could also go into Windows Explorer Documents And Settings
\X\StartMenu\Programs\StartUp and delete any shortcuts (again, to
applications running at start up (but see exceptions below).

Be careful though. Don't stop antispyware and antivirus from running at
start up.

Bill Ridgeway