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April 10th, 2007, 07:54 AM
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Major Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Morristown, New Jersey
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Process Utility
Anybody have a link or know of a utility that can tell me what all those running processes are and whether or not I can shut them down.
I'm experiencing serious shortness of cpu breath. |
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April 10th, 2007, 12:22 PM
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Major Player
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Hillsborough, NC, USA
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On Windows?
Something like this: http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/ (Not freeware). Alternatively, open Task Manager and click the Processes tab to see what processes are running and Google any that seem greedy... e.g., on this computer, the Symantec antivirus etc has a number of processes. One is "ccSetMgr.exe". Googling with that name yields a lot of hits, many for websites with information about what the process is + some utilities similar to the one above. Some may be freeware (I don't know). |
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April 12th, 2007, 08:30 AM
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Regular Crew
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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Hi,
for windows XP, try Task Manager/Processes as mentioned and then on the Internet, check http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm and www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm The free Bit9 FileAdvisor (go.pcmag.com/bit9) can also help by identifying known good files. Hope this helps. Cheers, Ian |
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April 12th, 2007, 09:25 AM
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Major Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Morristown, New Jersey
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Thanks, I'll give these a try.
I thought I couldn't possibly need all those processes running, but who knows what they are? Maybe I do need a lot of them. |
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April 12th, 2007, 09:42 AM
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Inner Circle
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: switzerland
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my XP runs nothing more than 16 services at start and works very well.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm |
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