Wow, didn't notice the GoogleUpdate.exe, thanks for the heads up on that. Agreed about programs adding items in our startup. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Boyd, Todd M. <tmboyd1@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ovidiu Rosoiu [mailto:org.spam.recipient@xxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:56 PM >> To: Richard Heyes >> Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: Google Chrome >> >> Richard Heyes wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Is it just me, or is everyones disk thrshing more since installing >> (if >> > you have) Chrome? Oh, and to keep it in-line with list, isn't PHP >> > great? :-) >> > >> > >> I uninstalled it precisely beacause of this behaviour. The disk was >> running crazy every time chrome was started. >> And I don't know how to do "lsof | grep chrome" on Windows to see >> what's >> going on. > > You can at least track memory + cpu usage through the Task Manager > (Ctrl-Alt-Del + T on most distros). In the Task Manager, I also noticed > that GoogleUpdate.exe is running even when Chrome.exe is not. This made > me a bit curious, so I went into msconfig (the Microsoft GUI utility for > modifying startup programs, services, and system INI files) and saw that > GoogleUpdate.exe had been added to the list of programs to run on > Windows startup. > > I hate, hate, HATE it when programs install resident agents that eat my > memory and perform background network activity. Rrgh! Points taken away > from Google for this app's EULA and its methods. Slick otherwise, though > (aside from the lack of XMLDOM instantiation support for Javascript)... > > > Todd Boyd > Web Programmer > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
