Guest ordep Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 How many programs have you got running in the background.I've got 45Seems a bit excessive to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 Are we talking apps or processes, :o either way I think you may be better off with some closed down :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince of Calcutta Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 30 processes running :o and i just installed windows a few days ago no office etc installed yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 With a/v etc running here with 19 processes and connected to net Exteme tech to see how you can slim down your running processes :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince of Calcutta Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 thanks for the link mark , have bookmarked it and will read it slowly :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 And another site, possibly easier to follow :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 Good post ordep....Ive got 45 processes running too ..........!Windows 98 was easy to strip everything out to get the max out of an older slower processor to get the frame rate up ..........!But like you I'm not 100 % sure what to shut down ,without unknowingly shutting off a fire wall or something else ,thats needed , but not necessarily essential for XP to work.Cheers mark 2 for the link...the second one looks interesting..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 Some radical (well for me it is!) stuff in there for speeding up XP (BV's website)Some makes sense.....but turning off system restore ! .............gulp...I used to reformat and clean boot occasionally in 98, so all essentials were backed up on CDR,s but XP has made me lazy.........Ive had to restore 3 times , due to a trojan problem......Think I ll try some of the other things first.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 Go for it Tankus,You Know you want to. :P :P Depending on XP home or Pro you should be able to get rid of 10-15 processes running with no ill effects, depending on your a/v, Norton uses lot of resources, Sat here full a/v, firewall, wmp 9 and IE running, on 19 processes 1 of those is taskmanager, BV's website does show an extreme configuration for gaming.I back up with drive image before installing new progs, no need for sys restore :D :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 PS we can always use remote assistance and I can do it for you !! :ph34r: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 My process list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ordep Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 If it don't each, don't scratch it,Thats my motto Tankus.Everything seems to work ok (except BF42 wont run)So I leave well alone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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