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 RepliesSo, 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.
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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.
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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,
Right 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,
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View 4 Replies View RelatedVista 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 RelatedI 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 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?
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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.
Recently, 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?
Is 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?
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I have just puchased my first Windows Vista computer - an HP laptop. I have purchased at leat five laptops since 2000 so I am familiar with setup and
comfortable with installations etc. I have three questions here.
1. My last computer had Windows XP and an 80 gb hard drive with 70 gb full - After copying the data only (55 GB) to my new 250 gb hard drive I have only 107 GB remaining of the 222 GB C drive partition. I have not yet added many programs. That tells me that Vista must be using 50-60 GB or more of the drive. Can that be correct?
2. My new computer takes 5-6 minutes to start up. After two minutes I get the welcome screen. Then the monitor goes black for a full two minutes before continuing the startup process. Is this normal for Vista?
3. Occasionally the monitor goes dark for a few seconds and a window pops up saying the display driver has failed but is back. Is this normal?
I certainly gained no speed with this new computer. There are many things I like about Vista. Since I have no previous experience with owning it I am trying to sort out if this computer is a lemon that should be returned or if I should just put up with the downside.
The last couple of days I had a few times a startup error. It said something like Windows couldn't start normally. Run Startup Recovery (Recommended) Start Windows Normally. I did the Startup Recovery and then it worked again but the next day or so the same thing, otherwise my system runs fine.
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