Thunder Gmail - Web Login Required (Failure)

First time I've experienced this after using thunderbird for at least a year. A good search for very helpful and it came up with these two links which is the basis of my post:

1. http://www.ginside.com/2009/2986/gmail-fix-web-login-required-failure/
2.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/11/05/fix-gmail-imap-invalid-credentials-or-web-login-requires-failure-error/

As a reminder for me this is how I fix my problem.
1. Head to https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha
2. Successfully unlock my account with that link
3. Login to gmail from web interface and go to Gmail » Settings » Browser Connection > Always use https
3. If using googleapps. it seems this can happen when you do not enable ssl(enforcing ssl for domains) at domain settings-->General - SSL (check enable ssl)

Apparently no option was selected in my case. That is probably the problem. Dunno how it became unselected but these are one of those internet glitches that happen.

Fujitsu u810 windows 7 rc to rtm

I updated my evaluation copy (release candidate) also known as beta to a retail version of windows 7 ultimate yesterday on my fujitsu u810 and it was a nightmware. It took exceptionally long because I have no room on my drive. I basically followed the tip at http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3075/how-to-upgrade-the-windows-7-rc-to-rtm/ which after removing alot of space on my fujitsu with 768swap successfully ugpraded to retail in about.... over 4 hours.

However my perfectly working evaluation copy of windows 7 turned out to a fairly broken u810. First thing I noticed was my mouse button was moving in opposite directions. I move it right it actually goes left.

I got a weird fingerprint message about deleting credentials to use the device only to delete the fingerprint record and find out i cannot add a fingerprint because it says it requires a application to use.

My rotation is broken button is definately broken.

So I finally decided it shouldn't be difficult to just remove the fujitsu drivers and fix it that way. No luck. Now my pen doesn't really work. Rotation is not working. The led light for keyboard definately does not work. Fingerprint is not working because now I need an application which windows was handling it in the evaluation copy. Yes I tried compatibilty mode for the vista software even though it detects it as windows xp.

Well I hope this helps someone. I imaged the evaluation so I'm going go back and restore everything. From there I'm just going to have to stick it out for 6 months and hopefully fujitsu comes out with window 7 drivers.

Windows Update Problem - 403 - Forbidden

I received this error after a successful windows update a few days ago and checked today to get:

403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.

Here's what I did which did not solve the problem:
-Deleted the windowsupdate folder
-reregistered windows update components here - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/956708
-Used windowsfix here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971058
-kinda did this before I realized it was for windows 95 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/245142

Here's how I finally fixed it:
I checked my windows update log file at : c:\windows\WindowsUpdate.log
noticed this line near the end:
FATAL: Update required for C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuweb.dll: target version = 7.2.6001.788, required version = 7.4.7600.226

internet searched wuweb.dll and found this solution at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914226

it fixed my problem but my system didn't have iuctl.dll file and I skipped part 1 because i don't have automatic updates enabled. I did have to use the unlocker program on the file wuweb.dll to change it to wuweb.old however because it was locked but that and changing the file Iuengine.dll was the solution. I was able to revist windowsupdate.microsoft.com again and there was an active x notice which I installed and now showing updates again. Unfortunately the title of that solution applied to "Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested page" would be a difficult one to fine. Hope this post helps someone.

ps. This might also work: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949104 which is to reinstall the windows update agent again cause the update corrupted it.

Pulse Pen by Livescribe - Thoughts

Been seeing a lot of this pen recently but I've also seen a similar idea like over 5 years ago... Do anyone remember the same technology that never took off? As someone who has a real problem with organization and an over need to make excessive notes that's replaced and than re-noted again... I really cannot recommend this.

Basically this technology is highly independent on special paper and even if it's not... it's very reliant on ink like most pens are... I always have a problem getting ink refills for my specialty pens so I really hope people not get driven into this asinine hype over a pen that requires specialty items. It might be different if the paper companies are willing to incorporate the special dots that make the pen very useful in every circumstance where paper is available.

I have read that you can print paper but it seems unreliable to the original printed paper. Besides the other problem I have with the pen is the battery it uses. Is it user replacable? I don't care if the reviews say it can last a week. If you are using this religiously can can pay through your nose in specialty paper to make it work as it should than what's the battery replacement strategy? Just thinking of this pen reminds me of my logitech bluetooth headsets... Guess where that is now?

Just buy a tablet computer. Best ones are just under 3 pounds and with "Windows 7" you really will use it a lot more because of the handwriting recognition and better tools. The only problem still is battery power and screen size. Basically I'm still waiting for a 24 hour battery life :P with around 7-9 inch tablet that has to be under 3 pounds and everything in my life will be much simpler.

Window XP audio problems

it's been so frustrating the last few days. My audio is acting up in the most annoying way. Almost all audio; that is the voice/dialog is severely reduced to the point it's almost mute but the music itself is working just fine. I tried to reinstall my audio drivers. When that didn't work I changed from my audio card to the integrated sigmatel audio but no dice. The same problem so I tried to remove divx/xvid codecs and reinstall. Than I tried to reset my media player preferences.

None of that works. Well guess what the problem was? It seems my Plantronics Audio 90 Multimedia Stereo PC Headset is broken. I use another earphone and I can ear just fine but my headset can't produce dialog. That's the weirdest thing ever. Though I suppose it could have been the fact that my chair rolled over the cable a few times...

Drupal Cron run failed

Very interesting situation. I love drupal (not sure why) even though if you add even a few modules the load time becomes snail pace. Also any sort of shared hosting environment and it can break down with database connect issues so it's a pain. Forget about getting even a dozen logged on users on a shared environment because depending on the modules... you will get booted out of your hosting provider. Enough complaining; done. Reason for this post is for my recent problem. I tried to run cron and it says:

Cron failed.

I tried to run it again and log says:

Attempting to re-run cron while it is already running.

Oh really? I'll wait a while and a few hours later I try again and get this message:

Cron has been running for more than an hour and is most likely stuck.

Well the server seems fine... not high load so I internet searched and the solution appears to be to disable the update status module. I ran cron successfully. I re-enabled update status module and ran cron again. Successful. Great. Problem solved. At least for Drupal 5.19

For Drupal 6.13 you will have to modify /modules/common.inc.
Look for Line 2637 and change $semaphore = variable_get('cron_semaphore', FALSE); to $semaphore = FALSE;

Remember to run cron and with success; revert the change.

Blocking Domain tools / whois.sc / Aboutus.org

There is nothing more disgusting than a website that crawls your site and than create snapshots of it so they can sell it people. That's domaintools.com for you and I've been blocking them for over a year with these ip blocks which are not effective as from a recent search yielded results just 2 months back.

I'm using the entire arin blocks assigned to them in iptables which is far more effective:

Name Intelligence uses compass communication Direct Allocation. Blocking entire compass communication ip range because they seem to added 1-2 additional ips to them which is not listed in arin.net.

64.246.160.0/19
216.145.0.0/19

Name Intelligence using Spry Network 66.249.0.0/19. You can block entire spry network or just below which is assigned to name intelligence

66.249.16.0/23

Excessive indeed but since these ip seems to be a hosting provider no big deal but I will monitor the logs to tweak this but I doubt I will. I don't have a problem with archives.org anymore; only because I sent a certified letter for them to remove any existing data of my domains and stop archiving in the future because a robots.txt doesn't really remove your information. It just prevents them archiving from that moment on. In which case when the robots.txt is gone the archiving will continue and the old data will still be there. Very disappointed with that organization.

Anyway here's a work in progress of the ips that I am seeing them since July 2009. I'll update this if I can:

64.246.161.30
64.246.161.42
64.246.161.190

64.246.165.10
64.246.165.140
64.246.165.150
64.246.165.160
64.246.165.170
64.246.165.180
64.246.165.200

64.246.178.34

64.246.187.42

66.249.17.123
66.249.17.159

216.145.5.42

216.145.11.94

216.145.14.142
216.145.17.190

Windows 7 on a tx2500z

After loving the performance on a u810 I decided to wipe out my tx2500z and put in windows 7. I tried to use acronis true image to create a backup on the u810 and than use universal restore on the tx2500z... That didn't work out and I reinstalled it manually.

Everything installed fine but it was a bit unstable even running all the windows update. Make sure to install the optional updates which has a lot of drivers. The problems at that point was freezing, crashing, and general instability. Typically at this point I set advance options to best performance (except for thumbnails). Disable windows defender, windows search, turned of disk defragment schedule, unclick indexed c drive, ip helper service, in display I turned off automatic background to one and everything is working much better. After calibrated I notice there was one device undetected and after installing the hp buttons, I installed ENE CIR Receiver(the remote) which resolved that device. Some other minor tweaks but after activating it seems to be functioning with some quirks. The major one seems I can't go to system properties->performance options->click change(virtual memory) causing both system properties and performance options screen to not responding.

It seems my problems are with a bad cluster/sector on my hard drive... After a few hours scanning and automatically repairing my hard drive which took over an hour everything is working better but I did install the hp graphics driver which is older than what is installed by windows 7 for good measure.

Update: I reverted windows 7 because I still have odd quirks of tray icons not loading and programs still suddenly not responding. The main problem actually was truecrypt is not compatible yet and because the tx2500z can handle speeds just fine in vista. I did test acronis true image can make a perfect backup of windows 7 (just not universal restore).

Windows 7 on fujitsu u810

I am quite happy with myself. I manage to install windows 7 v7100 evaluation copy on my fujitsu u810 also known as the u1010. After giving ubuntu remix a try I was glad to find that windows 7 installation was quick. It seem to have went quicker than the ubuntu version which is very fast. Everything is working well. Once I rebooted I did windows update and try to install some of the drivers/utilities but did hit a snag on a few items. I had to manually install the FUJ02B1/FUJ02E3 because for some reason it was at first undetected and after it was detected manually the device had a problem(I did a uninstall because of an error) so I looked up the file in the /drivers directory folder (fujitsu install packages extract there) for that particular device and installed it.

I also receive this odd "error in cuisdk initialization" when I tried to rotate. At first I thought it was the button driver/utility installation problem in xp/vista but I realized it was actually a video driver problem. I installed the vista version (choose compatibility mode option when it fails regularly because it's not designed for windows 7) and it selected override the current version which was 8.5 or something to the 7.14 version. A reboot later and I was auto rotating by swivel or manually rotating by button; no problems.

Second issue was the fingerprint driver. I actually installed it using the optional updates section along with a few other hardware updates in "windows updates" and setting up the device in windows 7 (it has it's only software). It was very quick and painless setting up one finger... just not sure if it was more secure than the free asus version I was using in xp/vista.

For some reason I was receiving Error 0x80072EE2 in Windows Update after updating fine the last 2 times. I took the time to correct my world time which was fast 4 hours and Windows Update worked again. Isn't that weird that it would work 2 previous times on the wrong time? Maybe a quirk.

Extremely happy about it. It's very fast.... I don't have to tweak any settings so far but than it's a clean system. I imagine after installing adobe and office it might slow down but it would be acceptable if the boot times and rotating is as fast as it is now.

Readyboost seems to be a problem. It's probably cause of the interface of sd/cf reader which makes it unsuitable and in fact it did not detect the sd card readyboost capable at first but auto-magically some time later; u810 says the sd card will work but may be unsuitable.

Turning out to be a productive week...

maybe more like somewhat productive... I installed ubuntu remix on u810 and got the touchscreen to work at spareinfo.blogspot.com. Initially nothing I did with the directions got the touchscreen to be calibrated corrected till I scroll down to the manual files to edit. The second time I updated the latest patches before following the directions and it was only slightly miscalibrated. However seeing as cellwriter is ok... but was missing microsoft onenote... I decided to try windows 7 in the weekend.

Manage to drag myself to Bryant Park at 42nd street to sign up for contest at Bank of America and State Farm. Only got a cheesey red bag with a basic cardboard fan which was better than a person at Bank of America dragging me out the line to have me fill out the contest form cause I got nothing but a sales pitch... BOOOOO!!!! She was cute though.

Signed up for hosting at vpslink.com. It should be much better than what I have now though I've never actually managed a virtual server before.

I cannot believe Michael Jackson died. The same day as Farrah Fawcett which is really strange news near the end of the work day. So I spent most of the night watching the news and I thought oh... well I might as well take this time to install debian on a nslu2. I have alot of success in that department with unslung and openwrt... Oddly enough it felt as if a third of the internet was down as a few sites was all hard to reach.

This always happens though. I think it's going to be easy and I think I read all there is to the installation till I miss one entire paragraph. The most important paragraph being that it takes about 4 hours to install. OMG. I am at this posting only 79% installing of the base system. I thought it was going to be a simple flash like maybe 15 minutes (tops) and than I go that 5 hours configuring it or just messing around that might cause me to reinstall, etc.

Wish there was better documentation for the debian installation. First thing one should write for the debian 5.0.1 installation is that it will take 4 hours with the current installation method of flashing the firmware with a debian installer or a quicker and easier installation with a manual installation. Not too surprised however with the lack of documentation especially for someone going from windows to an linux environment. It would have been so much appreciated if someone list instructions in windows to flash firmware and manually fdisk the drive/usb drive but it was rather scattered as I did another few internet searches for next step guides. All which was lacking in a few details. For example. Why would one list network connection as a requisite when you really need an active internet connection. Coming from an unslung/openwrt installation I flashed in a stanalone method with a laptop connected to the nslu2. Not helpful.

really odd. I installed a virus scanner (avira) that is low load and once I use it with say vlc media player or acrobat reader the memory and cpu spike so high that the tablet functions got disabled. The usb dialog will pop-up near the traybar periodically saying it detected a device that has an error and the touchscreen is basically dead.

Anyone know a fix? I had to re-enable the swap drive and remove the virus scanner to get it working properly. The readyboost has really poor performance.

Verizon Automatically updating DSL modem Firmware

This is probably no special news to verizon users in the new york area. In fact I actually read this in the dslreports forums but I decided to replace my really old verizon westell modem (which is just a modem that predates the 2100). Why? The old modem model B90-36R516-01 is quite big compared to a 6100 (twice in size of the modem and power brick). Anyway after just one day of being connected online and set in bridge mode it had the annoying blink red internet light but functioning just fine. Imagine my surprise when I woke up today and saw the internet blinking green instead of the regular red and off.

Apparently in the middle of the night sometime when I wasn't using the internet the modem just upgraded the firmware to "Proline DSL Model" with the trademarked verizon logo with red theme. Firmware at 4.04.03.00 and Transceiver Revision at 7.2.3.0. Fortunately the new firmware automatically connects to the internet with the handle "newdsl" (what's the password?) so I was able to find the details of setting it to bridge mode in the new interface.

For future reference the information I would need is:
login: admin
password: password
ip: 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0
walled garden: 192.168.1.1/verizon/redirect.hml

The walled garden is a forced registration screen that might come up. This is similar to why I dumped a netgear router wg614 because it wouldn't allow me to setup anything until it detected a WAN connection. Incredibly annoying. For the netgear situation it was 192.168.1.1/CA_HiddenPage.htm to disable the wizard.

Openwrt Woes

My router was giving me problems for the last month. I have a wrt54gs version 2 and it was working pretty well with openwrt 7.09 but the internet connection kept failing. Most often when the phone rings which I believe the wireless is buggy so not only does it cause my internet connection to reconnect it completely disables my wireless. Really nasty.

I was too lazy to go through the openwrt update to openwrt 8.09 because the webif interface would not accept the firmware. It did however accept dd-wrt. I find it works pretty well in the last 2 weeks. However it seems all these firmwares becomes progressively bad over the weeks particular with internet connection reliability and wireless. I hope to go back to openwrt because I am use to editing files when I connect through ftp, telnet, or ssh. DD-WRT is uneditable unless you setup jffs and it just seems a little weird even though it has a much friendly interface than the webif implementation in openwrt.

The only funny thing with dd-wrt is the dnsmasq and dhcp server implementation. There's no point to have both running when dnsmasq does both. However somewhere in the firmware it automatically grabs a resolve file which are the dns servers. Any good expert in internet connectivity will tell you that dns server is the most important because alot of isp dns servers are either bad(slow requests or failed requests) or to make some money divert your dns requests through their search engines (verizon dsl does this) or worst. After much time which was unusually long the resolve.dnsmasq file gets their servers from the web interface even if you disable it in the basic setup. Basically I had to enable dhcp server in basic setup and add my 2 static dns servers. Save it and than disable the dhcp server. Weird right?

However I realize reliability is the most important issue... If dd-wrt gives me weird problems I will migrate to tomato firmware and do with less flexibility.

Amazon Kindle 2

So I'm watching Nightline on ABC channel 7 in brooklyn and they are talking about amazon and their CEO. Of course they mention Kindle2 and I'm forced to make a post about it because I actually saw this maybe 50 year old on the 4 subway train using it about a month ago. I admit it looks much better than kindle 1 but it still pales behind the Sony PRS-700 Reader Digital Book Portable eBook reader. Well of course it does not have the ability to download the New York Times which is why it's so popular.

However as someone with a small tablet computer smaller than a Lifebook T1010 it seems like a better way to go except for the glare. So now I'm wondering how many people actually have the kindle and carry a laptop along with a smartphone.

Hewlett Packard tx2500z Tablet Notebook

I received my HP tablet model tx2500z today. Was shipped from Shanghai China on December 31st, 2008. Originally estimated to arrivate on January 7, 2009 but it seems from the fedex shipment details that customs released it within 1/2 hour (in alaska) than to NJ and finally to NY. I like it so far. I usually would remove the default install due to the junk software installed that would slow my computer down. However xp tablet handwriting recognition is quite bad and vista is superior by quite a bit. I did install Norton first (that took an unusual amount of time) and a 178mb windows update. The Hewelett Packard Games pack and did some minor windows customizations to fit my needs. I can never understand why vista made some tasks confusing and outright annoying. For example it does not allow you to show all the network connections (wireless/ethernet) even if disconnected; making you go a few extra steps to setup and check status.

Here's a picture of the 4 computers I purchased in the last month as a size comparison. The hp tx2500z, 2 fujitsu u810, and an asus 1000h.



Here's a simple pros and cons which maybe useful instead of a bloated review:

Pros:
1) Can find great deals on this tablet with hp promotions. If you manage to get it below 700 than you should definately get it because it would be the cheapest tablet available in today's market.
2) Includes a cleaning cloth.
3) Includes a wireless remote to watch dvd.
4) Includes a dvd/cd holder for a lighter weight (OMG. coming from someone who bought quite a few laptops with nothing like this included which could cost what? an additional dollar of plastic; HP gets major bonus points)
5) Has a SD-MS/Pro-MMC-xd multimedia slot (OMG. this is perfect because my fujitsu uses xd)
6) Good speakers, Webcam

Cons:
1) Screen does appear a little fuzzy as if a screen was added to the display causing a frosted appearance. Most noticable in white background.
2) Fan is pretty noisey.
3) It can get pretty HOT.
4) Microphone doesn't seem to be very good (but comparable to almost every laptop)
5) For a 12 inch the battery makes it close to a 14 inch so it is not much smaller.
6) My monitor is labeled tx2000 along with what's written beneath the laptop. Minor annoyance.

Final Thoughts:
I can see this as my primary machine with vista installed. I may have to give vista sp1 a try on the u810 however it lags quite a bit using the tablet in xp. I do not see it getting better in vista. I did not opt for bluetooth and fingerprint because it was a bit too big and heavy to find those addons useful(even more so after receiving it). I also had some spare bluetooth adapters and find the fingerprint software on the u810 a bit obtrusive for anything other than quick login. Either way I'm really happy I got to upgrade my primary laptop. I should be carrying a u810 and a tx2500z every where I go now.

What to do with old computers....?

Because I recently purchased the hp tx2500z, that would make it my 4th computer purchased within 2 months. That is very troubling because I still have 2 older laptops that work perfectly well. I tried to sell my 600m with 2gb memory on craigslist and was deeply disappointed by the lowballers. There's no point in selling it for 100-150 dollar offer (someone offered 50-70 dollars because he's a poor college student. Bite me) when I can donate it and write it off for at least that amount.

It than got me thinking to energy conservation because I am still using my dell desktop for a tri-view (could be quad view but I did not have another dell ultrasharp). I have always wanted to use synergy to network 3 computers and I think I have the computers to do that. My old mac mini (1gb memory max, ppc), my 600m (1.6) and my old hp pavilion (P4). It would not be very powerful but I would have everything I need to get things working. My 600m will be my main computer, my mac mini will be my apple computer and my hp pavilion will be my linux computer.

I am still trying ot figure out the technical aspects. It would be nice to lose the bulky desktop.

i-gotU gt-100

I was recently given a i-gotU gps model gt-100 which appears to be the lowest model they have available. It was a gift and I appreciated it however I was skeptical because I already had a few bluetooth gps units which work quite well (over a year ago to use with my dell pda. coincidently they no longer make and I should really sell on ebay). So my problem is that I notice the model was not bluetooth. The second problem I encountered is that it has this really weird cradle and long cable to connect to the computer to use connected. The third problem is that they did not bother to include some sort of dongle or string to use that hook on the top right side of the gps unit (I was however able to use an available string cord from a portable usb drive). The final problem is that it is a sealed unit (it is waterproof) therefore no battery replacement is possible.

Early problems experienced:
1) Computer could not connect to the gps unit sayings it was not transmitting a NMEA compatible data. (Had to reset the device)

Things that would have made the unit worth recommending:
1) Include a very simple slide on usb attachment that would have made the unit attachable like a thumb drive (if anything a usb extension cable could have been used if you needed that)
2) Include a few things to attach the unit to. For example a long cord for neck, short cord for keychain, or even a arm wrap thing so you can attach it like the pictures shown. (they do recommend the unit have an unobstructed view of the sky. example not in a bag or in your pockets which somewhat defeats the purpose as a travel logger)
3) Enable a way to disable the two led lights because when it's data logging... you don't need it blinking to notify you of anything because if it doesn't work, there's nothing you can do anyway. I mean sure leave it on when connected to usb or when it's running out of power or even turning on/off but otherwise it's kinda stupid.

It's still plenty neat. Very small and waterproof but I would personally gone with a GT-200 which is a bluetooth version and larger battery but when it's free, I suppose I cannot complain too much. Here's my pictures but if you google GT-100 you can find some good pictures at buygpsnow or anywhere really.
I havn't tried to really use it yet because it kinda blinks a little too brightly so it's kinda noticable to everyone concerned.

Fujitsu Lifebook U820

I am a little sad today since I heard of the u820 and immediately thought about selling one of my u810 until I read a little bit more of the improvements u820 over u810. The major difference is that the u820 has 1.6ghz processor (wow. Maybe it can run Vista), the 1280x800 resolution (wow. It can run well now with some programs like photoshop which require 1024x768 at least), gps (wow, I do not need to carry my bluetooth gps I bought 2 years ago), and a 1.3 megapixel webcam (maybe my friends can actually see my beautiful face when conferancing), finally a extra keyboard row (ohhh. maybe less use of function key to access arrow keys. very annoying)

Than logic set in with the 2 main reasons it is not a good idea. Mainly the same 5.6 inch WXGA screen which is quite small at 1024x600 is suppose to now use 1280x800??? The same maximum 1gb maximum memory? I definately do not need to upgrade but that gps and better webcam would have been nice. The extra row doesn't seem to make much sense as I barely got use to typing on it. I keep pressing the esc key which is the most depressing as it kinda ruins half of what I type in the first place.

So anyway I'm still waiting for a laptop with all the same features of the u820 now but is 9 inch with a full keyboard tablet. Anyone know of one? The T4220 was very close but they didn't include a webcam but than maybe a new version would put a gps and webcam in it... Wishful thinking. Everything I really need is in the u820 now except larger memory (I definately need at least 3gib to be a full replacement but will be happy with 2gb at least for usability).

If anyone finds what I'm looking for please inform me.

taskmgr.exe - 100% CPU Usage

I recently had a strange occurance of my CPU Usage being at 100%. The taskmgr.exe would be at 99 and a good search turned out nothing much useful. I initially thought the culprit would be microsoft search 4.0 and since inkseine only requires it... I deleted it and at first it worked after a reboot. However the next reboot the same thing happened so I also remove the groovemonitor.exe that came with microsoft office 2007...

No such luck and used the process explorer which oddly turned the cpu usage down and it was only the system idle process that was relatively high which is normal. I did disable the automatic avast upgrade process by changing the settings as I noticed it took up a huge amount of processing power at the next bootup. That could have been the culprit and it makes sense as I guess it assumes my internet is always on but it didn't affect my xp performance... it's just something I noticed when I used the task manager.

It was just weird and made me almost do a complete reinstall because I thought I had a virus that wasn't detected.