Hi Joe K.

In Win98, you can use the System Monitor to see what percentage of CPU
cycles you're using.  I'm sure I moved the shortcuts around in my computer,
but approximately: Start button > Programs > Accessories > System Tools >
System Monitor.

When you get the System Monitor open, click Edit > Add Item > Kernel >
Processor Usage.  Play with the other settings.  You are one with your
computer.

If you see the CPU usage is at 100%, that means SETI is running.  As an
experiement, exit SETI, and see how the CPU usage drops.  You can exit other
programs one by one (using ctrl-alt-del if necessary) and see how the cpu
usage decreases further.  If you exit a program, such as Systray, and the
CPU usage doesn't decrease, that would indicate that it doesn't matter to
SETI if it's running.

CPU intensive programs include streaming media players, and web
advertisements with flashing colors.

How would you like a display of the percentage CPU usage for each process
running on your machine?  There are a few utilities that include this
function.  Check out "TaskInfo 2003" at http://www.iarsn.com/download.html .
It's a utility that every SETI user should have.  When TaskInfo is running,
tap Ctrl-2 to toggle between the the process's DOS names and their English
names.

For a better idea what a program does, and if it's safe to close it, check
out http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

For instance, it says something about mprexe.exe allowing more than one
network adaptor to run.  I don't expect that's a requirement in your set up,
therefore, feel free to close it.

Mmtask looks like another program that's we don't need running, but
answersthatwork recommend leaving it running.  Feel free to try closing it,
but I would tend to take their advice.  At worst, you'll have to restart
your machine.

They describe Msgsvr32 as "essential."  I would take their advice, and leave
it running.  Good luck trying to figure out what it does.  I've spent hours
on Google trying to figure it out, but there are no plain english
explanations.

As far as I can tell, the only thing that happens when I terminate Systray
is that the Volume control closes.  Everything else in the toolbar continues
working.

There are also ""energy saving" features, that put hard drives and monitors
on standby after some period of inactivity.  Desktop > Properties > Screen
Saver >  Energy Saving Properties of Monitor.  All these timers should be
turned off anyway, for best WU Crunching performance.  However, if those
timers are set to turn things off after some time, then closing Systray
should disable the timers.

You can spend a lot of time configuring what information you want TaskInfo
to display.  Break a leg.

The combination of TaskInfo and Answersthatwork is a powerful combination
for learning what your computer is doing with itself.

Best luck,
               -Neil-

<"Joe K"@myhome.computer> wrote in message
news:407629FF.325BB070@myhome.computer...

In a win98 running seti command line,what is the least amount of
processes I have to run.
I have only explorer,systray,msgsrv32.exe,mmtask.tsk
and mprexe.exe
running.What is and can I turn off
msgsrv32.exe,mmtask.tsk and
mprexe.exe? Can I also turn off systray?