Without SMS my Perl programs keep running for days until I stop the programs. With SMS there are problems with my Perl programs and other applications such as Outlook, Word and Access. Outlook would often lock up while writting an email and when I look in the task manger and find "CLISVC95.EXE or CLICORE not responding". Other people had had these same lockup problems on other applications.

After logging on the corporate network I stop these programs from running. There is one Perl program that was started over a week ago and it is still running without problems on a computer without SMS. I am going to write a Perl program to delete these files.

Here is a way to disable SMS on a Windows 95/98 which I tested on one computer. Check the first line of your Autoexec.bat file for SMS and delete this line. Rename your autoexec.bat to something else like auto.bat. Edit this file a put the word SET in front of your path and you may have to edit other statements in the file. Delete any file with autoexec in the name. There is a hidden file called autoexec.sms that also needs to be deleted. Create two directories called AUTOEXEC.BAT and AUTOEXEC.SMS. Reboot your computer and log in, there will be a couple of error messages but the login script kept loading. Run the file batch file you created. Program editors, Outlook, Word, and Excel on this 233 MHz Pentium II with 64 Meg Ram now runs much faster than the 550 MHz Pentium III computers with 256 Meg Ram.

I am going to write a Perl program to kill SMS a few minutes after login to keep Jeremy and the other system administrators happy. This should allow time for SMS to to do it updates and then prevent it from crashing my programs as well as Outlook, Word and Exel.