I have a small problem,with my broadband connection icon;it's vanished from the taskbar.
I run windows Xp Home Edition,I have checked that the connection box in properties is ticked.
Anyone a solution to this as its very irritating.
I don't always want to be online though - when I play San Andreas I like to turn off as many system resources as possible to keep them all for the game - it's laggy enough as it is.
So I turn off the AV and firewall when I play the game
You can always just do teh disconnect in Network Connections. Personally if I need to get down to turning all that sort of stuff off to play a game I'd either buy a better PC or get a better written game. How do you know that these are what is hugging resources? There may be some wonderful windows process that is eating up loads of RAM and you are fiddling to save 20 M.
Performance tuning is a black art but there are loads of good articles out there if you look hard enough.
Lampman,
I personally don't consider it a problem. One thing you may find if you read some of my other posts is that I don't use Windows. Whilst I know quite a lot about fixing Windows(and I am happy to do so) I do not have an install to check finer details.