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How did you go Fuzzy?
How are the old knees holding up?

He rocked, and re-qualified for next year.

Well done, David!

... as he participates in the upcoming Patriots Day Festival of Self-Flagellation.

Enjoy!  Do well!

Win+L instead of logout or shutdown?

I wish -- company policy prohibits a user remaining logged in when gone.  I must at minimum log out; old policy was to shut the machine down every evening.

I've you've read even a couple sentences of anything I've posted, ...

I have read your body of work.  I tried pointing at the computer in a gay manner, but that didn't do anything except make me crave a heater.

Follow-up questions:
1. Does this happen to just your machine or others too?
2. What manufacturer?  Just wondering because I saw some reports of issues with SEP and HPs.

Not sure, but I'm asking around.  I have one of the oldest machines in the company (5.5 to 6 years old, was up for replacement last year, but budget trims pushed things out).  IBM ThinkCentre Pentium 4, 1GB RAM, WinXP Pro 2002 w/SP3.  I'm hearing reports that a few others have similar issues, but it's certainly not a company-wide complaint.

And LOL on the "upgrade to Windows 7" smite.  It's a company-owned computer, bitch.

IT removed the Norton Antivirus from all workstations, replacing it with the server-side Endpoint Protection.  The old NAV was set to do a full-body scan once weekly at noon Wednesday.  For most humans, this corresponded to lunchtime and was not a problem.  The new SEP appears to perform a full-body scan every time the workstation is booted up or a user logs in.  Each morning.  It bogs the computer down as to make it essentially unusable for ~45 minutes.  (Literal example: I typed "golfhos.com" into the address field, then looked up to see "g|".  More than ten seconds later, the "olfhos.com" scrolled into the field.  Then another 10-15 seconds to load the page.  Task Manager wouldn't even launch the first two times I tried it.)

Since it's server-based, I can't alter the scan schedule.  Likewise, it merely relaunches rtvscan.exe if I try to end that process.  Here's a view of its CPU usage profile over the last several minutes:



What can I do to escape its sluggishness?  I'm even more ineffective than usual for the first half-hour to 45 minutes of every day.  IT has been utterly useless, of course.

Maybe 3-6 beers in fridge, bottle of vodka in freezer, Maker's Mark in dining room cabinet along with some ancient liqueurs and *feces*, around 3-6 bottles wine.

I am pretty neutral on everything, and haven't had any "bad exchanges"with anyone, basically, I rarely ever have a strong opinion on anything.

doesnt explain some of the others.