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[CS-FSLUG] [OT] Windows XP does something fishy

Chris Brault groundhog3000 at yahoo.com
Thu May 20 18:34:21 EDT 2004


A ps -aux on Linux would help,

> I *believe*, but don't quote me on this, that
> Windows XP indexes files for
> faster searching, etc. while you're not using your
> computer. Depending on
> your configuration, it could also be
> downloading/installing Windows updates.
> Or, assuming it's similar to Windows 95/98, it could
> be doing a few other
> things:
> 
>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;146630&FR=1&PA=1&SD=

Or you could check the CTRL-ALT-DELETE menu to see
what is running. On my Linux box, it is running
updatedb (indexing) so I suspect the Windows is doing
the same.


	
		
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