Cyber Ear question

[Cy Shuster]

Mac extensions are small additions to the OS loaded at boot time, like the System Tray icons next to the clock in Windows (who remembers TSRs?!?).  Almost every piece of software offers to be loaded automatically at startup these days, "in case you need it", but also (like Real Player) to pop up annoying messages to you.  Most have an option setting somewhere to turn off this automatic loading.

Ctrl-Shift-Esc will bring up the Task Manager (in NT, Win2K, XP), and show you the percent of CPU utilization.  The less software that's automatically loaded, the less CPU you'll use, and the less heat you'll generate.  3D graphic displays use a lot, e.g. that cool rotating object in a screensaver.

--Cy Shuster, TSO--
Rochester, MN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@attbi.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Cc: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@attbi.com>
Sent: June 05, 2002 4:12 AM
Subject: Re: Cyber Ear question


> 
> On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 03:26 AM, Richard Brekne wrote:
> 
> > Disabling extensions ?? what kind of extensions are you refering 
> > too.. ? Please
> > explain closer..
> >
> 
> Mac OS extensions! If you're a Mac user, you ought to understand. If 
> not, don't worry about it.
> 
> Patrick Draine
>