What is this?

[Just Me]

I am puzzled and hope I can get help here. I am using WinXP home. My ISP is
MSN.

When ever I go online there are several programs that automatically update.
Some I have selected the manual update so I can do it when I want to
instead of the automatic option.

There is one update that happens quite often and I can't figure out what it
is. It is extremely slow and slows down all my other activities while it is
updating. When it is active I see a gold shield in the task bar with what
looks like an exclamation mark in it. When I roll over it all it says is
"Update in progress" and it shows a % completed. There is no indication
what program is updating.

I would like to shut off the automatic feature and only update what ever it
is manually. Can anyone tell me what this is and how to switch to manual?

Thank you.

jm

 

[Malke]

I am puzzled and hope I can get help here. I am using WinXP home. My
ISP is MSN.

When ever I go online there are several programs that automatically
update. Some I have selected the manual update so I can do it when I
want to instead of the automatic option.

There is one update that happens quite often and I can't figure out
what it is. It is extremely slow and slows down all my other
activities while it is updating. When it is active I see a gold shield
in the task bar with what looks like an exclamation mark in it. When I
roll over it all it says is "Update in progress" and it shows a %
completed. There is no indication what program is updating.

I would like to shut off the automatic feature and only update what
ever it is manually. Can anyone tell me what this is and how to switch
to manual?

Since we can't see your computer, you will have to be our eyes. When you
see the yellow shield, open Task Manager and see what programs and
processes are running. Make notes and then Google what you see. What is
your setting for Windows Automatic Updates?

Malke

 

[JK]

Just Me.

I have found MSN to be *extremely* invasive *without* having them as an ISP.
I can only imagine the "week of Sundays" they have on your computer when
they are your ISP, you can hardly block your ISP.

My suggestion (in order):

1. Change ISP
2. Remove all programs planted by MSN (MSN Messenger is not panted and is
OK, thus far)
3. Block MSN at the firewall level, except Passport Login & MSN messenger
(if you are using it).
4. If you are using Hotmail, and the above actions giving you grief to
getting into it (as it did to me), dump it! Use Yahoo, Google or whatever.

Regards
JK

 

[Guest]

I turn on the "task manager", and note the CPU activity. Usually, when the
system come to a crawl, this run 50% or higher. At 100%, things come to a
stop.

Then, go to processes in the task manager, and see which one is taking up
the CPU time. Sometimes the process name does not give you a clue as to what
application it belongs to. But a little "googling", I would get the answer.

In my case, it's usally something with Norton's and when I had AOL, it was
AOL.