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To: shadowman who wrote (58426)	5/11/2008 3:29:11 PM
From: Stan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

Speaking of having a lot of idle time for your CPU throughout the day, there is a worldwide search for large prime numbers that you can join and let your computer participate according to a schedule that you design. You download a small program that installs on your machine, then it hooks up with the other worldwide users. There is a cash prize if your computer is deemed to be the finder of certain numbers. The odds are really against you finding them, though. The project is called GIMPS. I ran it on my older machines for a few years, but no prizes. I just reinstalled it on my new machine. mersenne.org

To: shadowman who wrote (58426)	5/12/2008 8:32:45 AM
From: Lynn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

Shadowman: I have taken a look at things many times via the CTRL-ALT-DEL and looked under, "Processes." 100% of the time the biggest memory user is IEXPLORE.EXE (currently 121,796K with 9 browser windows open). Often, explorer.exe is around or over 40,000K, but currently it is 8,348K. Something called svchost.exe (system file) is the second largest at 31,980K. Checking the, "Performance," section, "PF Usage [whatever that is] is 478 MB]. CPU changes between 0 and 6%, mostly staying in the 3-5% range. Unless I am sure what something is on the Processes page, I leave it alone. Lynn