Try this site for a list (large) of Applications that place themselves in you Startup. It tells you which ones you can safely disable. Will tell you how to disable Task Scheduler too!! http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm You can even download the site for offline reference... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beth Thompson" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:30 PM Subject: [PCSOFT] hard drive running > Greetings, > > Yesterday Office XP was installed on my work computer. > Dell Optiplex GX1, Win98 (4.10.1998), Pentium II, 64M ram > > It's now sooooo sloooow....What's bothering me is ... hard drive starts running and keeps running and grinding and running, ...not doing anything ...require writing to the disk. .C-A-D, ... get quite a few items that I don't recognize: > > Cftmon > Em_exec > Dpps2 > Navapw32 > Mdm > Acrotray > > Can anyone tell me what these things are, what they do, and whether I need them? And if not, how to get rid of them? I have Norton AV, a pop-up window stopper, and Task Scheduler (can't figure out how to get rid of it) in the systray, w/ a few others that I didn't include above as I can recognize them in the CAD window. > > I thought it might be the OfficeXP Language Bar, ... It apparently only runs when a MS program is on top, and the hard drive grinding doesn't only happen then. > ... > Beth Thompson > > PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml