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| 366471 | 2005-06-24 02:14:00 | Hi all On booting my system I have 41 processes going, and some I know can be removed See pic Here (sal.neoburn.net) Windows 2K pc-cillin 2005 apache server mysql & php asusprobe -- not to sure about this The above are the things that should be running at boot up, I have hunted round finding out about some of the processes, theyre all pretty harmless, but it is hard to find instructions on how to prevent unnecessary services starting at start up any help would as usual be greatly appreciated and thanks to sal for providing imagef1 to host the pic (is sal a boy or a girl :confused: never been 100% sure on that one) Cheers |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 366472 | 2005-06-24 02:45:00 | asusprobe is a temperature watching app. I do not have it but it may be neccessary for yr setup. Don't get too paranoid about what is running unless you think you are getting problems.But you should check Google on anything you suspect is not "normal".Lots of nasties sneak in if you are not well protected. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 366473 | 2005-06-24 03:49:00 | Nah Asus Probe isnt required at all on bootup. Its actually a piece of rubbish.It comes with some ASUS mobo's, on the CD. There are better temp monitoring programs around. As for Itunes, if u use the Ipod a lot, (and u don't buy anything with it online) and dont want to run those entries belonging to Itunes get rid of Itunes. Get Winamp and the Ipod plugin instead. Just enable the hdd in Itunes, if u decide to kill Itunes. It will still work in Winamp, and XP (if u use this), will still read it as a hdd/removable disk. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 366474 | 2005-06-24 04:21:00 | Its actually a piece of rubbish.It comes with some ASUS mobo's, on the CD. It comes with them all. And there are updates for it. I found mine reports exactly what my BIOS reports. My sons board is 1 degree off. Its handy if you want to an occasional check. But I wouldn't have it in the startup either. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 366475 | 2005-06-24 04:35:00 | Put the process names into one of these sites to see what you can stop running. www.windowsstartup.com www.answersthatwork.com www.liutilities.com hth |
johnboy (217) | ||
| 366476 | 2005-06-24 05:21:00 | i would suggest u getting "ad aware" and "AVG" they should get most problems for adaware lavasoftusa.com and grisoft.com for avg | CorbinH (37) | ||
| 366477 | 2005-06-24 05:45:00 | I have hunted round finding out about some of the processes, theyre all pretty harmless, but it is hard to find instructions on how to prevent unnecessary services starting at start upThe processes you have running in Task Manager are not all "services" that Windows itself runs at startup . The ones that are not Windows Services are programs that you can prevent running at startup by going into the programs' Options or Tools and disabling the option to run at startup . Most will have this option and for those that do not appear to you can usually fix by going to Start>Run type in msconfig and look under the Startup tab . Removing the tick in there will then prevent them running at startup . You can do the same within Spybot's Advanced section if you prefer . Use the links posted by JohnBoy to decide which programs you can give the chop . For Windows Services you can have a look at Black Viper's information and make up your own mind what you do and don't require from his recommendations . Black Viper's site has been unavailable for a while now but it has been reproduced at MajorGeeks ( . com/page . php?id=12" target="_blank">majorgeeks . com) . (is sal a boy or a girl :confused: never been 100% sure on that one)Sal is a male . ;) |
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