Dramatically Reduce CPU Usage!

[Prince_Serendip]

:) This is rather bizarre and strange.

I am studying for an exam in American Sign Language and whenever I go to this particular website, within a couple of minutes my CPU level drops below 6%. I would like to know if this works for anyone else? I just now went with the CPU at 80% and above. In 3 minutes it became 4%. Wow! It's still around that right now. You need Quicktime 5 and up to use this site.

American Sign Language Browser (http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm)

Give it a whirl, and see if it does it for you?

(I'm on Win98se.)

[FanJ]

Hi Larry !

I tried it, but not for too long...

First as usually I had ActiveX, Java, etc disabled.
No very high CPU usage.
Several connections to:
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/ etc etc

Then I decided: OK, I enable ActiveX, Java etc in IEClean (I knew that I had made a backup-image earlier that day so I could always put that one back).

Well, a good lesson for anyone who is interested in what a web-site can do when you surf with ActiveX etc enabled, will follow...

In the beginning indeed a 100 % CPU usage.
Connections also to:
http://a1540.g.akamai.net/7/1540/52/20031027/qtinstall.info.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab
http://crl.verisign.com/Class3CodeSigning2001.crl

Then the CPU usage dropped.

Afterwards I decided to run my file-integrity-checker NISFileCheck:
There were changes made in my (older) Apple Quick Time:

Application: c:\windows\system\qttask.exe
Status: New added
Version old: 6.4
Size old: 77824
Date old: 2004-03-25 23:04:24
RMD160 Hash old: B5694CF0DAF88AEFF5EB23FBDE0F1A79499DFF76

Application: c:\windows\system\qtplugin.ocx
Status: Changed
Version old: 5.0.3
Version new: 6.4
Size old: 225792
Size new: 327736
Date old: 2001-09-21 15:10:20
Date new: 2004-03-25 23:04:16
RMD160 Hash old: 33E436C9D00F5A9E70C79EABF6295BC9E390AA96
RMD160 Hash new: 62E50E18E1AD668F85A5E42F6E2BC1AD57BBC525


So:
1.
I did't have all the time a very high CPU usage (maybe I should have tried longer...).
2.
Off topic to your question but I wanted to show it again:
Surfing with ActiveX etc enabled can be very dangerous: all kind of things can be done on your system....
Nothing new here, but once again I wanted to high-light this....
3.
I denied in RegRun Gold qttask.exe to run at start-up of Windows.
4.
Even more off topic:
It wasn't clear to me whether Javacool's MRUBlaster deleted some "most recent items".
I didn't see it do it, but at the moment I don't know whether there was anything to delete....


BTW: I too run Windows 98 SE.

Thanks Larry for your question !
Please forgive me that I went so much off topic in my reply :-[

Warm regards from your friend, Jan.