Great program to see all the services/processes with explainations and full details.
http://www.whatsrunning.net/whatsrunning/main.aspx
And just a day after posting this I find out that a searchindexer.exe is sucking up resources. It’s related to windows search service and the latest updates seems to have made it a permenant part of the OS, but it can be disabled with services.msc
Have a neighbor with connection problems. Charter says it’s not them. It’s inconsistent. Gonna use Ping Alert to test for consistency of connection…
From: http://www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/xp_filesharing/03userpasswords.htm
Permitting Network Access Without a Password
To allow users to log onto their computers without a password and then access the XP Professional machine without a password, you must make a security policy change:
This will permit network access without a password. The user’s computer can boot directly to the Windows desktop, and be validated against the corresponding XP Professional user account, without a password.
Note that the term “blank passwords” isn’t technically accurate. There’s a difference between having a password which consists of one or more blank characters, and having no password at all. This setting actually permits access by users who have no password at all.
Awesome screen capture program…and it’s free!
In my first adventure with it “Alt-PrtScrn” didn’t work, but right clicking on the icon on the right of the Start Bar allowed me to capture either Full Screen or a Region, and that captured the screen for me.
Then I thought it had a drawing program…and it did, but it wasn’t clear to me until I went to Start/Programs/Gadwin Systems/PrintScreenPro and opened the PrintScreen program. At that point the draw program showed up with the screen image ready for a variety of balloons and other basic features.