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To: shadowman who wrote (4343)	7/8/1999 8:16:00 PM
From: Phil(bullrider)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

Dennis, Do you have Winston Cup Racing loaded on your machine? loadwc showed up on mine after my son loaded it. I finally got it off. It should be in your "startup" folder, inside your "programs" folder, inside your "start menu" folder, inside your "windows" folder. Hope this helps. Have fun, Phil

To: shadowman who wrote (4343)	7/8/1999 8:16:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

hi dennis, i checked to see if i have them running too. just loadwc runs on my system, though i have all 3 of the files you listed. loadwc stands for load webcheck. it's small (16kb on my machine). i don't know what it does. osa may be a file that is part of the microsoft network group... like an address file or something. shrug. rnaapp is 36kb on my pc, and it's a dial-up networking application. you can close them and see what if any effect they have on your computing. a cool thing to do is check your system resources % before and after shutting them down, to get an idea of how piggish they are. sorry i don't know more about these programs. tell us what you find out. and what else do you have in mind today? :) mark

To: shadowman who wrote (4343)	7/8/1999 8:33:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Respond to of 110631

WAKCBYWDS.EXE and other stuff ... Windows seems to be a veritable breeding ground for programs with really weird names doing even stranger things. Type "DIR *.EXE /S" at the DOS prompt and you'll and you'll see screens of this stuff scrolling by. A hint: Use an on-line search engine, such as YAHOO, and put in the file name you're investigating. You'll be amazed at the quantity, and quality, of information this brings to your screen. It's never failed to enlighten me yet. Cheers. PW. P.S. I just made up the filename WAKCBYWDS.EXE for this post. It doesn't exist. (I think!) P.P.S. I just can't help this. In England, "W.C." stands for "Water Closet", the name they use for a toilet. It boggles the imagination to consider what a program called "Load WC" actually does?

To: shadowman who wrote (4343)	7/9/1999 2:58:00 AM
From: alraz	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110631

Hello Dennis, In answer to your question about Loadwc, Osa, and Rnaapp, it is not necessary to have them running all the time. Loadwc checks to see if IE is your default browser, and can be turned off via Internet Options in Control Panel (click on the Programs tab and uncheck the box at the bottom about checking for IE as the default browser). Osa is short for Office Startup Assistant, I don't know what it does, but I've had it disabled ever since I installed Office 97 over a year ago, and have never had any problems. If I remember correctly, you can delete it from the start-up menu. Rnaapp is started whenever you go on line using dial-up-networking. If you are not online, you can turn it off through Task Manager. It will automatically start again the next time you go online. Explorer and Systray are started through the registry, and need to be running. Hope this helps. Alan