procceses

Calvin Walley · Post by **Calvin Walley** » 9 Feb 2006 9:11 pm

i'm showing 50 procceses running in the background is there a safe way to shut some of them down and how can i tell the ones that i need fron the rest..running win xp

calvin

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 10 Feb 2006 3:37 am

50 is about average for a WinXP, SP2 machine with firewall, antivirus, etc running.

There may be a few that doesn't need to be running but with Windows XP, "system resources" are not an issue like they were in the older Windows Operating Systems. XP, although a "memory hog", handles memory much better and more efficiently and the reason there is no longer a "system resources free" listing.

There's some startup/cleanup that you can do but it won't make a really visible difference. e.g. many programs want to put a "quick start" in the Sys Tray (lower right of the task bar) and most of that is not really needed. e.g. media players, games, adobe acrobat, etc.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 10 Feb 2006 8:48 am

You can Google for hits on windows+xp+startup+services or go to Mark Russinovich's website at www.sysinternals.com and read about processes and threads on this page, and on his blog.

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