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Old August 2nd 12, 05:25 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
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Default Local Area Network Connection Has Constant Activity?

On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:21:13 -0500, Char Jackson
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On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:34:36 -0700, wrote:

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:47:03 -0500, edfair wrote:


Take a look at processes running. I've seen wupdate get borked and two
instances attempting to do updates beating each other over the head.


By "processes running", you mean in ctrl/alt/delete window?


It's called Task Manager, and Ctrl-Alt-Del is only one way to access
it. You can also right click on the taskbar and select Task Manager
from the context menu, among others. Once Task Manager is running,
select the Processes tab.

In most cases, I always have MS Outlook 2010 and My Computer minimized
on the toolbar, and nothing else running. The computer is idle, but
the Local Area Network Icon still shows a lot of activity. Checkint
it, I see many packets being sent and received on the Network.


I still don't think network activity is necessarily a bad thing. Did
you ever do any of the things that were suggested to track it down?


I worked with Dell on it and they found a virus on my machine, cleaned
it up and things seem to be going better now.
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