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Posted by Dana Cline - MVP on February 7, 2007, 3:43 pm
Please log in for more thread options Unless you can Ctrl-Alt-Del and bring up Task Manager, I don't know of a
way...
You can login to Safe mode and see if that gives you a better clue...it
could be a driver...
Dana Cline - MCE MVP
> I've already customized my startup with Autorun, and eliminated
> tasks/programs that I didn't need. I don't see anything there that would
> cause this to happen. It appears like its installing updates, but I don't
> have an online connection yet, so that's not likely. Is there a way to
> tell
> what's running when its executing?
>
> "Dana Cline - MVP" wrote:
>
>> www.whatsrunning.net - it's an excellent program and lets you fine tune
>> your
>> startup programs, services, etc.
>>
>> Dana Cline - MCE MVP
>>
>> > About once a week when I boot, it takes a long time (over 1 hour),
>> > before
>> > the
>> > Run light on my computer goes off. Something is running, but I can't
>> > tell
>> > what it is. It happens prior to me starting anything. I'm not online
>> > and
>> > the Task Manager doesn't show any programs that would account for it.
>> > Is
>> > there any other way for me to determine what is running?
>>
>>
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