I thought the YELLOW running man icon was AOL Instant Messenger?
Correct me if I am wrong.
JOhn :}
At 11:14 AM 2/15/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>We were working with a compaq computer today and were idle at least we
>thought. Noticed the modem lights flashing away while nothing was
>running. Checked the task bar and sure enough, the boys at compaq have
>added a nifty feature, an auto updater. This particular customer was
>complaining of it being slow while his other computer in the house was
>faster. Had him bring it to the office for us to check out and it is
>slow.
>
>This little auto updater was trying to download an 8 meg file with an HCF
>modem set to +ms=v34.
>
>Its a program called backweb. Might want to be on the look out for it.
>Got a little running man icon in the task bar.
>
>we stopped that and took it out with msconfig, the customer got home and
>it ran just as fast as his other machine.
>
>Jeff Carlson
>Head of Technical Support
>Apex Internet Services
>(502)444-9060
>jcarlson@apex.net
>
>
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