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ctrl-alt del doesn't show these 2 programs, nor does Lavasoft ad-aware find them, but zone alarm flags one of them calling home with regularity -- Real makes huge numbers of attempts to call home. And jv16 power tool shows them, as being loaded <b>at startup</b> -- thus hogging resources I think. Of course neither Real nor QuickTime seems to eve tell you about these programs Here is what jv16 says gets loaded at startup, without being shown when you press ctrl-alt del:<br><br><br><br>
Program : QuickTime Task<br><br>
Filename : "c:\\windows\\system\\qttask.exe" -atboottime<br><br>
Description : N/A<br><br>
Loaded From : HKEY_LM\\Run<br><br><br><br>
Program : TkBellExe<br><br>
Filename : C:\\program Files\\common Files\<br>
eal\\update_ob\\evntsvc.exe -osboot<br><br>
Description : N/A<br><br>
Loaded From : HKEY_LM\\Run<br><br><br><br>
There are other programs at startup not shown by ctrl-alt del, but they are part of the windows operating system, and I am aware of what they do. For example there is a little program to detect if I plug my scanner in. Another to add extra features to my trackball. And something called Task Monitor (c:\\windows\\taskmon.exe) -- it came with the orig windows 98se installation.<br><br><br><br>
Should I just try removing the quicktime and real audio-video programs from loading at startup by removing the registry instructions that load them? I suspect that it will simply result in Real not popping up, out of nowhere, and telling me an update is available, like I have seen it do.
Program : QuickTime Task<br><br>
Filename : "c:\\windows\\system\\qttask.exe" -atboottime<br><br>
Description : N/A<br><br>
Loaded From : HKEY_LM\\Run<br><br><br><br>
Program : TkBellExe<br><br>
Filename : C:\\program Files\\common Files\<br>
eal\\update_ob\\evntsvc.exe -osboot<br><br>
Description : N/A<br><br>
Loaded From : HKEY_LM\\Run<br><br><br><br>
There are other programs at startup not shown by ctrl-alt del, but they are part of the windows operating system, and I am aware of what they do. For example there is a little program to detect if I plug my scanner in. Another to add extra features to my trackball. And something called Task Monitor (c:\\windows\\taskmon.exe) -- it came with the orig windows 98se installation.<br><br><br><br>
Should I just try removing the quicktime and real audio-video programs from loading at startup by removing the registry instructions that load them? I suspect that it will simply result in Real not popping up, out of nowhere, and telling me an update is available, like I have seen it do.