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| 262937 | 2004-08-18 08:32:00 | hello All. I have seen this topic here before, I think. We are on XP Home. When running AdAware it tells us that there are from 38 to 42 "Running Processes" It has been said on this forum to get rid of some of them. I brought them up & ,most of them,I would not recognise. How can I tell which are good/bad, necessary/unnecessary? I typed "R P" into "RUN" 7 it only showed five!!!.. PJ |
Maryann (2010) | ||
| 262938 | 2004-08-18 08:35:00 | Drat, should have logged out & come back in as myself. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 262939 | 2004-08-18 08:41:00 | Try these sites to show you what programs are running . here (www.greatis.com) here (www.windowsstartup.com) here (www.answersthatwork.com) hths |
johnboy (217) | ||
| 262940 | 2004-08-18 10:39:00 | The best site for what you want is here PJ www.blackviper.com Scroll down for each service and how it should be set. I have 41 services running at the moment, and I am not at all bothered by it. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 262941 | 2004-08-18 12:49:00 | If you are not having a problem then leave well enough alone. You probably don't want to do as much work as identifying those processes would require. I have 49 processes running on my machine at the moment and every thing is fine. If you end the wrong process then you may have to reboot to get back the use of your computer. Vince | Vince (406) | ||
| 262942 | 2004-08-18 20:56:00 | I have a patch from Black Vipers installed.I learnt quite a lot from him about the services that were running on my machine. I have 16 running process',it was 12 before I installed a printer.The patch has been on for close to a year now with no problems. His site is worth a visit. |
Jun,2002 (5885) | ||
| 262943 | 2004-08-19 00:53:00 | OK. It seems to me, with my low level of expertise & my propensity for making a mess of things, that I had best leave well alone. The original thought was to identify those processes that dialled out, thereby using up our 1gb of broadband, wastefully, & get rid of them. Ah well!! 'Twas but a thought. Thanks for the help. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 262944 | 2004-08-19 01:07:00 | Further to the above. Is there a simple on screen "Usage Meter" that will indicate inward & outward traffic, at any given time? Yes I know about Google. Has anyone got such a program installed that can be recommended? Thanks PJ PS. Not much wrong with MY spelling is there ? ]:) PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 262945 | 2004-08-19 01:12:00 | Don't listen to them,Ill set you right. Do you have spybot 1.3 installed? If not,then get it. If you do have then switch it to advanced mode,then hit tools,then system start-up,this will list each entry,simply click on the small triangle on the far right of your screen and this will bring up a panel giving info on each entry,wether its 100 percent malicios code,the remenants of a virus,or simply a piece of software running for no damn good reason,other then to suck up valuable resources and cause instability. The golden rule is the more you have running,the more chances that one can upset the apple cart. If in doubt,take a screenshot and ill have a look at it,after messing with thousands of these things i can pretty much tell at a glance what has to go,and being heavy handed is the best aproach,anything required can easily be re-enabled. Now,onto your bandwidth issue. Turn off your router when not in use. Use a firewall Use a web filter to kill of all the crap you dont want,media files,audio,big glary adds,I use Proximitron,i went without it for a week and my use skyrocketed. I also have all offsite images turned off,something worth doing even if bandwidth isn't an issue. |
metla (154) | ||
| 262946 | 2004-08-19 01:23:00 | www.sysinternals.com This is what I just used. |
mark c (247) | ||
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