On 6 Sep 00, at 15:43, Changhsu P. Liu wrote:

> LSA executable and server DLL?

  I don't remember what this stands for, but I believe its part of
the security subsystem.

> Task scheduler engine?

  The Schedule service is similar in concept to Unix's "cron"
facility; it can lauch specified commands at specified times.

> Network DDE Agent?

  DDE was the original Windows inter-process communication mechanism.

> Distribute COM Services?

  DCOM -- Distributed COM (Component Object Model) is another name for ActiveX.

> How about CPU? Mine is dual processor system. I thought 00 is one,
> and 01 is another. I have seen it on 13, 15, 88 and it constantly
> changing.

  That column shows the percentage of available CPU time currently
being spent on that process.  In Task Manager you can set the
processor "affinity" of a process to favour a specific CPU in a multi-
CPU system; the default is to schedule any ready thread on any
available CPU.

David G

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