**Weekend Daily Chat 17th/18th Oct **

daphne_descends

Good evening ladies and gents, sorry to butt in but does anyone know if BB is okay? Is she back from her hols yet? Sorry

karom

Ames wrote: »

CD/DVD drive acoustic silencer
Synaptic Pointing Device
Toshiba zooming utility

CD/DVD drive acoustic silencer: Software utility by Toshiba to reduce vibration noise from notebook computer optical drives. Interesting ??
Synaptic Pointing Device: software for your laptop touchpad for your mouse pointing device. it helps you use your touchpad better
Toshiba zooming utility: Again Synaptics Touchpad.

To disable I found:

Go to "control panel"
click on "Mouse"
click on the tab "device settings"
click "settings"
open the tapping menu
click on "tap zones"
uncheck the box that says "Enable Tap Zones"
click Apply
click Ok

HOWEVER if these are utilities / software that would have been there since you got your machine so I wouldn 't say that you would gain much speed by disabling them. They were running before so you must have other software using your memory.

Need to check what is running on the Services. Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
Check out what is running, some applications are necessary for Windows. Anything looking suspicious?

Ames

Cheers Karom, think I'll keep them running then.

I'll check the Services thing when I've finished doing what Z suggested. By the way, if I'm searching for files do I need to do that on both user accounts, or just mine since I'm the administrator?

bank_of_slate

Thanks PAP and Ginger Ste, I have re-set my options to shoe threads I've posted in :T
...Linda xx

karom

Ames wrote: »

By the way, if I'm searching for files do I need to do that on both user accounts, or just mine since I'm the administrator?

As admin you can see other user accounts (C:\Documents and Settings).
If you want to delete his User Profile -> right click on My Computer -> User Profiles Settings -> you should see it.

scaredy_cat

DD, i think BB was away for 2 weeks....

sallyx

DD , BB got back from her hols late last night I think!

Evening all
Had a bit of a funny day..did swim, cooked a delish supper, and tidied out B's toys/drawing stuff as it was overflowing with rubbish.

Ames

I'm doing the services thing, these are ones without descriptions, or that I don't understand:

Ati HotKey Poller
ConfigFree Service
MBackMonitor
QoS RSVP
WMI Performance Adapter

They're probably all important/vital/obvious!

Thanks again for all the help!

scaredy_cat

i'm having another lbm....:j




but it's only at 15 watts......:eek:

scaredy_cat

omg - someone shoot Edward and John!!!! and put us out of this misery!!!