LuckyStrike
Sun Aug 08 12:32:42 CDT 2004
Hi Tony -
That's Osa.exe Tony. If you have Office 2000.
OFF2000: What Is the OSA9.exe File and What Does It Do?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;210875
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist_o.htm
http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php?filter=osa.exe
Not related to the hard drive working all of the time but a nuisance
nonetheless.
(Mdm.exe)
OFF2000: Files Whose Name Begins with "fff" Appear in Windows Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];221438
http://forums.techguy.org/archive/index.php/t-249199.html
Sa.exe is something altogether different. Amongst many others, it can be:
http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/detail.php?id=2664
http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.html?id=59741
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=sa.exe&btnG=Google+Search
If that which I've offered doesn't help you to resolve your problem, you
might try a newsgroup that is devoted to WinXP.
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
HTH -
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LuckyStrike
LS@smokedamagedfurniture.youcandriveitawaytoday.com
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"Tony" wrote in message news:22f601c47d22$25cb0a40$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I never installed Office XP, but I have Office 2000 and
> all of the critical updates installed. I remember fast
> find creating an issue on a Win98Se system loaded from an
> office 2000 install at the office, it was removed from the
> start menu and issue resolved. I know the solution is not
> tthat easy. I thank you for your vast knowledge base on
> these subjects. I do remember a sa.exe and i could never
> get rid of it until I uninstalled Norton products. Isn't
> sa.exe a byproduct from Norton system works? Mdm.exe may
> be intalled. Thanks so much I'll check those out and get
> back to you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tony
>
>
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Happen to have Office XP installed? How about an enabled
> Osa.exe or Fast
> >find in Word? Mdm.exe?
> >
> >Installing support for fast searching
> >If you didn't install fast searching support when you
> installed Microsoft
> >Office XP or your Office application on Microsoft Windows
> NT 4.0 or Windows
> >98, from the Windows Control Panel, reinstall Office
> using Add/Remove
> >Programs, and, in Office setup, do the following:
> >
> >Choose Add or Remove Features and click Next.
> >Click the expand indicator next to Office Tools.
> >Click the icon next to Support for fast searching, and
> then choose Run from
> >My Computer.
> >Note After support for fast searching is installed, fast
> searching is
> >enabled by default.
> >
> >
http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/detail.php?id=1613
> >
http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/detail.php?id=3465
> >
http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/detail.php?id=1562
> >
http://www.windowsstartup.com/wso/detail.php?id=1515
> >
> >OFF: How to Turn Off Machine Debug Manager, Mdm.exe
> >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
> us;321410
> >
> >OFF2000: How to Turn Off the Find Fast Indexer
> >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
> scid=
http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q1
> 99/7/87.ASP&NoWebContent=1
> >
> >You'll need to look for the links as they relate to XP if
> you see that you
> >have any of those items listed in XP's equivalent of
> Msconfig. I run W98se
> >and have Office XP Word2002, Outlook 2002, etc. and those
> items I've
> >mentioned were a resource glomming, disk writing nuisance.
> >--
> >
> >LuckyStrike
> >LS@smokedamagedfurniture.youcandriveitawaytoday.com
> >
> >How to make a good newsgroup post:
> >
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
> >----------------------------------------------------------
> --
> >"Tony" <tjq_99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:17ef01c47c0f$d0130e80$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> >> doing anything. Hello. I have a PIV 2.7G IBM clone
> with
> >> 256M Ram and a large HD.
> >>
> >> My question is Windows XP home edition is constantly
> >> reading and writing and am curious if this is normal?
> >> What is it doing? Maybe they should program it to do
> >> something useful for the end-user like keep itself tuned
> >> up, defragged and delete temp files. Previous versions
> of
> >> Windows didn't need to do this and yes, we should know
> >> what it is doing. We did pay quite a bit of money not
> >> just for XP and the hardware, but also all the wasted
> time
> >> we spent cleaning up issues because Microsoft rushed his
> >> not ready for prime time products to the marketplace and
> >> let the end users iron out the bugs and worse yet
> security
> >> issues. Thanks!
> >
> >
> >.
> >