General Application help.

Here's a follow up to my question on how to diagnose and fix a clicking
hesitation problem on my Gateway PC, after excluding mouse clicking
problems. Ed, the only responder, said he read somewhere about a spyware
program causing delay by checking for interference every time a site was
changed. What I didn't say, because I didn't know at the time of writing, is
that I had developed a hugely slow Windows (XP) shutdown also - 2 full
minutes to get the Stand by/Turn off/Restart screen then a further 2.5
minutes to shut down.

Searching around on the Web helped me confirm that I had a program in
Startup that was killing my shutdown and incidentally was causing
inconsistent hesitation on clicking. It took a while to isolate it from the
unbelievable 32 programs I found running in the background on startup. Most
of these I don't even recognize - wherever do I find what each does? Most
have such cryptic names it's impossible to know what they do or what they
belong to.

Anyway, I found that preventing CTSysvol.exe from loading at Startup, by
unchecking it in Run/Msconfig/Startup, returned my PC to normal.
CTSysvol.exe belongs to Creative Soundblaster and is responsible for loading
a volume control and a mixing board belonging to Creative Audigy. I use the
standard Microsoft volume control instead. All is well again - just thought
you'd like to know. Denzil

Denzil, Most of those cryptic names like CTSysvol.exe you can type in the
Google search box and find what they are for there.

Ken


"Denzil Hathway" wrote in message
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Here's a follow up to my question on how to diagnose and fix a clicking
hesitation problem on my Gateway PC, after excluding mouse clicking
problems. Ed, the only responder, said he read somewhere about a spyware
program causing delay by checking for interference every time a site was
changed. What I didn't say, because I didn't know at the time of writing,
is that I had developed a hugely slow Windows (XP) shutdown also - 2 full
minutes to get the Stand by/Turn off/Restart screen then a further 2.5
minutes to shut down.

Searching around on the Web helped me confirm that I had a program in
Startup that was killing my shutdown and incidentally was causing
inconsistent hesitation on clicking. It took a while to isolate it from
the unbelievable 32 programs I found running in the background on startup.
Most of these I don't even recognize - wherever do I find what each does?
Most have such cryptic names it's impossible to know what they do or what
they belong to.

Anyway, I found that preventing CTSysvol.exe from loading at Startup, by
unchecking it in Run/Msconfig/Startup, returned my PC to normal.
CTSysvol.exe belongs to Creative Soundblaster and is responsible for
loading a volume control and a mixing board belonging to Creative Audigy.
I use the standard Microsoft volume control instead. All is well again -
just thought you'd like to know. Denzil

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:10:05 -0700, "Denzil Hathway"
wrote:

Here's a follow up to my question on how to diagnose and fix a clicking
hesitation problem on my Gateway PC, after excluding mouse clicking
problems. Ed, the only responder, said he read somewhere about a spyware
program causing delay by checking for interference every time a site was
changed. What I didn't say, because I didn't know at the time of writing, is
that I had developed a hugely slow Windows (XP) shutdown also - 2 full
minutes to get the Stand by/Turn off/Restart screen then a further 2.5
minutes to shut down.

Searching around on the Web helped me confirm that I had a program in
Startup that was killing my shutdown and incidentally was causing
inconsistent hesitation on clicking. It took a while to isolate it from the
unbelievable 32 programs I found running in the background on startup. Most
of these I don't even recognize - wherever do I find what each does? Most
have such cryptic names it's impossible to know what they do or what they
belong to.

Anyway, I found that preventing CTSysvol.exe from loading at Startup, by
unchecking it in Run/Msconfig/Startup, returned my PC to normal.
CTSysvol.exe belongs to Creative Soundblaster and is responsible for loading
a volume control and a mixing board belonging to Creative Audigy. I use the
standard Microsoft volume control instead. All is well again - just thought
you'd like to know. Denzil


I use this site - it is has data on all progs you might find starting
up - with descriptions and recommendations

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm

HTH

Cheers

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:10:05 -0700, "Denzil Hathway"
wrote:

CTSysvol.exe belongs to Creative Soundblaster and is responsible for loading
a volume control and a mixing board belonging to Creative Audigy.

Glad you found the culprit. Speaking of Creative.... I run an Audigy
LS and a while back I did their online driver update wizard. The
updated driver caused so much squirrely stuff to happen that I
reverted back to the prior driver and all was well.

Regards,
Ed

"Justin Thompson" wrote in message
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On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:10:05 -0700, "Denzil Hathway"
wrote:

Here's a follow up to my question on how to diagnose and fix a clicking
hesitation problem on my Gateway PC, after excluding mouse clicking
problems. Ed, the only responder, said he read somewhere about a spyware
program causing delay by checking for interference every time a site was
changed. What I didn't say, because I didn't know at the time of writing,
is
that I had developed a hugely slow Windows (XP) shutdown also - 2 full
minutes to get the Stand by/Turn off/Restart screen then a further 2.5
minutes to shut down.

Searching around on the Web helped me confirm that I had a program in
Startup that was killing my shutdown and incidentally was causing
inconsistent hesitation on clicking. It took a while to isolate it from
the
unbelievable 32 programs I found running in the background on startup.
Most
of these I don't even recognize - wherever do I find what each does? Most
have such cryptic names it's impossible to know what they do or what they
belong to.

Anyway, I found that preventing CTSysvol.exe from loading at Startup, by
unchecking it in Run/Msconfig/Startup, returned my PC to normal.
CTSysvol.exe belongs to Creative Soundblaster and is responsible for
loading
a volume control and a mixing board belonging to Creative Audigy. I use
the
standard Microsoft volume control instead. All is well again - just
thought
you'd like to know. Denzil


I use this site - it is has data on all progs you might find starting
up - with descriptions and recommendations

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm

HTH

Cheers

Thanks for the link, Justin. Much appreciated.

Louie
Gainesville, FL USA
(eat the flies to email)




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