Re: Installation of a new program

From: Ken Blake, MVP (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:26:09 -0700

In news:lM46c.37633$F9.24543@nwrddc01.gnilink.net,
wojo <kwoyach53954@yahoo.com> typed:

> You don't have to "End Process" any processes. Only
applications.

In most cases, despite all the dire warnings, you don't even have
to end applications. 

-- 
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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> "Serge Lebon" <sergeamariah@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:c3db01c40c64$05212e20$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> It is recommended to close the active programs in order
>> to install a new program, and not to close Explorer and
>> Systray going to the Task Manager. It was clear in
>> previous editions of Windows 95, 98 but in XP the listing
>> is quite different, explorer appears clearly but there is
>> no systray. I started to "End Process" of this list but
>> some of them as soon as press "End Process" would shut
>> off the whole process. I'd appreciate it if some one
>> would e-mail to me at least those programs not to "End
>> Process" because they are in the systray family.

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