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Geek Culture / can someone tell me what processes i can safely turn off on my windows setup?

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David iz cool
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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 03:21
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i have like around 27 processes that startup with windows,i dont like to have so many processes running ,especially since i dont know what they do.

if i showed a picture,could someone tell me what processes i can safely turn off (so they wont startup) with windows???

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 03:34
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Yes.


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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 03:45
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wow,fast response.

heres the picture,thanks!


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JoelJ
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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 03:52
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kill explorer.exe
you don't need it.

and the System Idle Process, that's a waste of memory

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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 04:13 Edited at: 17th Nov 2005 04:19
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thanks for nothing!
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Grog Grueslayer
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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 04:27
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Do a search for a program called "MSConfig.exe". That allows you to turn off/on programs at the startup (notice the last tab called "startup"). It's annoying that Windows XP doesn't have a link to that program at a fresh install... but it's easy enough to make one and put it in your System Tools program group.
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Quote: "Do a search for a program called "MSConfig.exe"."

or go to START->RUN-> type "msconfig" in the textbox, hit enter, BAM, no searching

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Grog Grueslayer
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Quote: "or go to START->RUN-> type "msconfig" in the textbox, hit enter, BAM, no searching"


Which won't allow you to hit the right mouse button on the program to make a shortcut.
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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 10:48
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Nothing wrong with 27 processes. I have 34.

Why do you think that's a lot? It is pretty normal.

If you want to know what they all do, go to a website that tells you, there are loads of 'em. One example is http://www.processlibrary.com

It tells you, for instance, that the top one is for microsoft antispyware that you are running. Some of the others are for your laptop's touchpad, some for your modem.

Then you have silly ones like sgtray.exe which is a backup reminder app that runs on your system tray.

Boo!
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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 14:58
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thanks spooky! im going to visit that site.

so,theres nothing wrong with having all these processes going??

i always thought the computer would run a little faster & easier with the least processes going as possible.
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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 16:33
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i'm running 51 processes, mostly server stuff though while I work on my project.

jusched.exe is for java. you can close it for now and it'll just reload when its needed. (at least it should)


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David R
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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 18:19
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I running 57. Winamp agent, Anitvirus, network managers, lots of various other proggies. Sadly, it takes a toll on my PC's memory


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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 18:24
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OHhhh, processes... I thought you were talking about services My bad. Nothing wrong with having 50+ processes running at the same time


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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 18:45 Edited at: 17th Nov 2005 18:46
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o ok.guess i wont worry about it then.reason i thought i should get rid of some was my old pc only had like 3 going.

thanks everyone!

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