«

On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:14:52 +1300, Kiwi wrote:

> I use either Free BSD or Red Hat Linux as an O/S on the systems that I
> work on every day at work (boxes running telephony applications) and
> they are great. I also used SCO Unix until recently at work too.
>
> In my early computing days, I also used to create programs in
> assembler on CP/M for Z80 based machines.

Nice!

What's your opinion of SCO Unix? What about it did you like/dislike?


Undeniably Sluttish

--
Free software on every PC on every desk.

LadyMel wrote:
> My fathers computer had nearly the same problem only for me trying to
> fix it TaskManager told me that svchost.exe was the hog - end task it,
> and then explorer.exe jumped to 99%

svchost.exe is a generic process which runs services, which can be
anything. Use Process Explorer to see what services are running in that
instance of svchost.exe, then use services.msc to stop/disable this
service (if it is non-essential) and see if that helps.

>
> I had to uninstall Nortons, and tried to copy fresh svchost.exe to
> windows/system32 - what a nightmare, even in DOS.

Yes, umm, you shouldn't do that. (if this is XP, and i'm assuming it is,
Windows File Protection will warn you if there is anything wrong with
system files)

>
> Google had millions of hits with search (CPU 100%)
> After wasting six hours I reinstalled windows. Major pain in the neck.
>
>
>> Reading my posts from the avast forums, thats what was suggested and
>> has so far worked *fingers crossed* but i still cant explain why after
>> 6 months of it working fine, has it started to play up now
>>
>> KB
>
>