Running Vista Business with SP1. When I click on the "Show processes from all users" button from the Processes tab, nothing happens. I expect to see a window asking for elevation credentials. However ... nothing. Nor is there anything (that I could find) in the Event Viewer logs.
View 9 Replies64-bit Vista Home Premium. I've noticed that task manager does not appear to show me all the processes that are actually running. The number of processes as displayed on the program's status bar is invariably larger than the number of processes actually shown. Is there some way to reveal ALL the processes that Vista says is running?
View 9 Replies View RelatedIn Xp when I used the task manger it told me how much CPU is being used. this was very helpful because if one particular process was taking up to much power I ended task.
Yet in Vista x32, even when the cpu is going at full pelt, it only register a few % on the odd program. Something is running, but I do not know what. This has been an ongoing problem for years, and I have installed and reinstalled, and run ant viuses and malware and root kits. Yet when running fully loaded, it never shows what is running, even when showing all users.
My laptop is a Dell inspiron 1720.
I would be grateful if somebody could shed so light on this upgrade from Xp.
Vista 64, 2gb ram, Geforce 8600, 250 gb sata hd, intel 6420 core2duo cpu, asus P5L vm mobo. Anyone suggest a tool that will let me see what exactly is running in the background. In the task manager/processes there a "Host Process for Windows" going on thats using approx 107,212K of memory. Image name is Svchost.exe, would this be the Superfetch at work here ? Also I seem to have 68 processes (which I think could be reduced)going on in total, cpu usage when idle is at 1% and physical memory at 58 %. Are these figures near normal for the above specs ? The computer does'nt seem any slower.
View 4 Replies View RelatedRight now I have 52, CPU usage hovers around 5-15, phisical memory 21%. I have 2 terabites of memory, mostly music software for composition. 1 terabite is being used, theres still well over 500 gigs of free space. I have like 13 svchose.exes running, 6 avgs, and a bunch of other crap Ive never heard of. Searching these in google doenst really do anything, I mean it tells me what it is kind of, but Im still afraid to mess with it. If this computer goes I'm ruined. I dont want to uninstall anyting or make a music application not run for some reason. I've ran spybot and avg full edition, encase it was a spyware issue. Would taking it in to a PC shop solve the problem? Or will they remove something valuable, accidentally. Perfomance is still excellent, but 52 processes,
View 6 Replies View RelatedI've been working with a new audio recorder program and after working with it I close it down. When I attempt to open it up later it will not open. I started checking and saw that under the Processes Tab on Task Manager it was there. So not knowing what else to do I ended the process. Then the program opens as usual. Can anyone explain this? Why would the program still remain there and NOT appear under any other tabs such as Services? How can I fix this so that I don't have to repeat this each time I want to use the program?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there any software that show what process is currently starting and running on screen in real time? I have Vista Ultimate. Somewhere along the startup of Vista there is a long wait. I think the perpetrator is the AppLauncher in the Vista Sidebar containing too many icons. In fact 56 of them. I guess the wait is while hte software is locating all relevant folders. But then again, I really don't know, as the wait is still there even when the sidebar start up is disabled. All I want is a few words on screen stating that this or that process is now starting... The list of started processes I can see in my Sysinternals Process Explorer. Do you guys know of such a ultility?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI recently discovered that I get an access denied error when I attempt to switch between different admin users under Vista SP2.
View 5 Replies View RelatedMy task manager wont show up, doesn't matter if I right click on my task bar, or go with the 'ol CTRL-ALT-DEL > Task Manager. Every so often I will see the icon pop up on the task bar (after I right click and select), but it goes away as soon as I move my mouse over it.
View 4 Replies View Relatedif i open say My Documents or My Computer to open a file a second explorer.exe decides to show up in task manager and is slightly larger in size compared to the original one. The first one currently sits there at roughly about 11,500k When the second one comes along its about 15,000k in size and the window takes about 2-4 seconds to load/display folders etc sometimes longer. It also becomes larger every window you open resulting in slower load times. From the task manager, if i close the smaller of the two explorer.exe's naturally the whole task bar at the bottom closes and you can't access the start menu etc.
But, if i close the other, slightly larger explorer.exe, it just closes that window.
I have run several anti-virus scans, spyware scans etc and have all returned nothing, so i am assuming that it might be somehting that has slipped through my scanners un-seen unless this is normal behaviour that i have not noticed before. Also lately my CPU usage had been fluxuating a lot between 0% and 20% when no windows are open, it can also shoot up to between 80% - 90% when opening a window and will then resume its fluxuating idle state until i open or close another window or file. If i click "Show process from all users" in the task manager another problem i see that might be related or compleetly seperate is displayed. I have 16 svchost.exe's, yes thats right, 16.... (screenshot available) they all range in size the largest being roughly 50,000k and the smallest being 200k. This can't be normal?
So i checked my task manager and noticed vista was using over 2gb ram 2.14 to be exact with very little programs open. Is this normal? Im on 4gb of ocz reaperx ram 5-5-5-15 1000mhz, and ive done the usual msconfig disable stuff that doesnt need to load at startup from loading but this seems rather high? would hate to think what it would be like with only 2gb of ram. Currently have 50 processes running in task manager.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am sorry but I am ignorant about the computer system. I have a Toshiba I bout about a year ago that runs Vista. On the computer it says Vista PC Workgroup Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2Duo My Internet connections have been glitchy lately. Our service is in a package deal (phone, cable, Internet) and usually is pretty good, but lately it was taking several tries to change websites. Someone said that it was due to the number of processes in my task bar. They said it should be around 24, but my has 100.
I am a school teacher and I have Smart Board software which takes up space, but I was wondering how I should know which processes to delete/ end. I tried deleting programs and I somehow lost my sound icon on my toolbar,
I like to keep my Vista running efficiently. Right now I have 60 processes running on opening and was wondering if I really need them all. So, and here's the dumb part, I thought that if I moved about twenty icon from V's taskbar and put them on the Desktop, that I would reduce the number of processes running. Didn't seem to make any difference. So I guess this is a three part question:
1. Does it make any difference where I have the program icons positioned - Taskbar or Desktop?
2. Are 60 processes running at opening too much. Or to put it another way, does this effect performance?
3. And if it does, how does one determine which processes aren't needed on start up? BTW, going to msconfig and startup, I only have 4 items checked.
i got my laptop about a year ago and have just started to dig into all the microsoft crap that runs on it. what i want to know is any and all processes that you guys know of that can be disabled in msconfig. its disappointing that my old desktop computer.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just noticed when looking in task manager that I have 2 instances of sidebar.exe showing in the processes tab. This is true for both my desktop running 64 bit and my laptop running 32 bit. Both are using different amounts of memory and both are running under the same user name. Is this normal and if so why are there two instances?
View 3 Replies View RelatedRight now I have IntelŽ Core2 Duo Processor E6850. What would I have to do to upgrade to a Quad? What do I need to check because I would like to upgrade to one of these. Extreme Desktop Computer - Intel. Multimedia Computer - Intel
View 9 Replies View RelatedInternet Explore and Windows Host Process Server on my computer are attempting to connect multiple times a day (20 or more) to numerous google.com ip addresses across a wide viriety of ports in the 45000's. I have been unable to close the processes. The Internet Explorer process has been running as a seperate program that I am unable to see and uses 45,000k of ram. It is also not possible for me to shut the program down. I have nine svchost.exe (windows host process services) running which are also attempting to communicate with google.com. These events are of great concern to me as I work for a financial firm and keep large amounts of proprietary knowledge on my computer.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI just want to know how to optimize vista,I run very few programs except Zone Alarm Pro and Symantec antivirus. But in the task manager, there are 80 running processes, and 50%+ physical memory,the CPU usage is usually 15%-50%. Is there any professional software to optimize vista PS, friends told me vista is crappy and xp is better, but I have no other choices cuz the OS is from the HP.
View 7 Replies View RelatedSo, I was getting bored and decided to follow up on some of the performance tweeking I've been doing. Anyway, I got a bit sidetracked and decided to go to the "Reboot Time" tread, which them prompted me to go ahead and diable some of my useless startup processes. Thing is, something strange kind of popped out at me... Why are there two "Microsoft Windows Operating System" processes when as far as I can tell from the reboot thread, people have 1? I'm assuming it isn't smart to randomly diable either, so I came here to ask.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm sure you are familiar with the traditional way to kill or end a process in Windows using Task Manager. This method is effective but not nearly as fun as killing a process in Command Prompt. Additionally, killing processes in Command Prompt provides much more control and the ability to end multiple processes at once....
View 0 Replies View RelatedI need help identifying processes running and how to shutdown so that I can free up memory...I have anywhere from 80 to +90 processes running. I have 2GB memory and 80%-90% is always being used? I have like 12-16 svchost running and have no idea what they are.
View 9 Replies View RelatedRecently, while taking my Vista x64 Ultimate computer out of sleep mode, a power outage occurred. When I turned my computer back on, no 32 bit applications run - not even the operating system's own services such as Windows Installer will run if they are 32-bit.
I tried typing 'firefox' in the Task Manager to see what happened. The process appeared for a moment, then was instantly killed. I don't know why. The Windows event log has been unhelpful in diagnosing the problem.
I also looked at Task manager at startup, and saw that all the * 32 processes were dying moments after Vista boots and show the desktop.
I have tried system restore, nothing worked. I tried to auto-repair my system in the windows recovery console, that didn't work either. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem short of simply reinstalling the OS, which I am reticent to do? If so, what should I do?
Ever wonder why you get network authentication errors when you are trying access a mapped network share from a process that was elevated by UAC? Josh over at WindowsConnected has a great article on how you can fix this annoying issue:
On Windows Vista when you map a drive under your admin account you will find that your mapped drive is not available after you switch to your full token via a RunAs or Consent dialog. This is by design because there are actually two tokens in play here. What happens is the LSA recognized that you are admin at logon and creates two logons. The first with a "filtered" token or non-admin which is used to render your desktop and the other containing your full token to be available after consent dialogs.Â
Because there are two separate logons there are separate logon ID's. When network shares are mapped they are linked to the current logon session for the current process token. Meaning you don't have access to the network drive from the alternate logon. This can come into play with logon scripts and a number of other areas where you may require access to a network share from both tokens....
I have a HP Touchsmart PC, running Vista x64 and using Internet Explorer 8. Recently we had a malware virus which was successfully removed by the computer technician. Everything is back to normal and when we run a virus scan it is now all clean. However, when we are on the internet the mouse now can't click with the left button
on websites and we can't use the left button to click to navigate around the site. The only temporary way I have found (which is very difficult and limiting) is to right click on the site and scroll up to "Open" or click on the site with the left button and hit "enter" which sometimes works.
I have replaced the mouse and ensured all the mouse setting are correct. This problem doesn't happen in emails only on Internet Explorer.
My start button no longer responds to my mouse click. Any ideas what I can do to restore this so I can get into my start menu?
View 5 Replies View RelatedThere should be a feature to add additional information or a solution to a Problem Report that's been submitted. I have solved a few of the Problem Reports I've submitted myself and would send them in if I could. And additional information on a problem may help to explain the situation better for the people who figure the solutions out. This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
View 4 Replies View Relatedwhen i upgraded to SP2 my start button stopped responding to my mouse click. i tried goin back to SP1 but it still didnt work? when i try to right-click on the start orb it comes up but with three black rows at the bottom of the right-click menu? i had to download that "Vista Start Menu" just to use it again but i'd rather have the normal start menu.
View 5 Replies View RelatedJust about 1-2 weeks ago i was sitting comfortably in my living room gaming away when i noticed the game i was playing started having problems. In the mist of playing my keyboard locks up and mouse freezes and i can't move my character at all. I can't even alt+tab to task manager to fix the problem. I noticed the windows vista error sound play and then a few seconds later the game resumes normally.
I thought it was the particular game, but when i ditched it and started playing navyfield i noticed the same problem occurring there.
Anyone have any idea what could be causing this problem? I was thinking driver related problems or possible graphics since the problem never occurs outside of gaming. When the problem happens the green lights for numb lock etc.. quickly off and on. I have disabled trusted installer thinking it was lag durring game and that cause the information to pause....I have recently reformated my hard drived with the disk that came with the computer and did a full installation of windows updates.
why i can't use my task manager?
View 5 Replies View Relatedthe infamous fake "Vista atnivirus 2010" somehow got into my system, with its unstopable topups that would never end until I did this. the program was av.exe, and is indicated in task manager as gav.exe *32. This is a hidden file in the folder (user)/AppData / Local. To resolve this issue, I did the following:
1. Start task manager.
2. Right-click the file in task manager
3. Select the option gOpen containing folderh.
4. Close task manager.........
I no this may be a nooby question but my task manager is all weird, its stuck on ythe process window and i can change it.
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