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August 10th, 2004 11:00

Dimension 8400 do I HAVE TOO many services / processs running?

please can someone advise me which are the essential services that should run in xp.

I if I look in task manager I have 48 processes running , is this slowing down my machine?

 

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August 10th, 2004 11:00

Look at this site for recommendation on running processes.  I strongly advise you to only make one or two changes at a time, run the PC for a day, if all okay, go back and make two more.  Write down the changes you make to make it easier to find them.  Do not make a change your not sure of.  Make a restore point prior to making the changes.  Kip

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm

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August 10th, 2004 20:00

1.  Leave them alone,  unless you really know what they are doing

2.  You are missing the point of the task manager, It tells you more than what is running.  I have forty-five proceses in the task list.  Of those, fifteen haved not used any measureable time in the past two days, only seventeen have used a minute or more.  Included in the fifteen are the "system Idle process" which used 288 hours, my virus scanner which runs each night and two process that run instead of a screen save, simular to SETI at home. 

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August 10th, 2004 21:00

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August 10th, 2004 23:00

Explain how/what TOS # 8 applies. P.S. I turned you comments over to the Moderator for he/she to determine if I have violated the Terms Of Service 

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August 11th, 2004 02:00

Did you include "Cheers! :)" ?
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