I recently downloaded PC Tool's Spyware Doctor and ever since then my memory usage went from 400 to 600 while in idle.So to cut down on memory I carefully disabled some more Processors and Start-Up programs I then went about and checked the "Adjust computer for best performance" and adjusted the Processor Scheduling to "Adjust for best performance of Background Services" It was only after those two changes that I relized when I opened Task Manager and clicked the processors tab there were only 8 processors there: firefox.exe, explorer.exe, taskmgr.exe ctfmon.exe, winlogon.exe, csrss.exe, sprtcmd.exe, pctsTray.exe.
Win Xp, Dell and cable connection When I do ctrl>alt>del, it shows 17 System processes running. Are all of these necessary? Also, some of the other running processes i recognize, i.e. firewall, IM, anti-virus, but some of them I don't have a clue what they are. Is there a list somewhere of what should/shouldn't be running necessarily?
I was just wondering what is an average number of processes running after restart before you start anything else up. I usually have around 44 running and this seems excessive. I would love to know what a minimum number of processes is to run Windows XP. If you have an idea, please let me know.
At any one time I have approx 60 processes running, even after just booting up my computer. Although I am not a computer expert, this seems like too many to me. I was wondering if anyone could help me by telling me if this definitely is too many to run at once, and if there is some way I can post a list of the running processes and have someone with more knowledge help me get rid of some of them.
I had this strange icon appear in my start tray. It looks like 3 letters spread out in a fan, with a blue light in front of it. When you hover the pointer over it, these numbers are displayed; 212.250.162.8,62.253.162.50. I'm having trouble sending emails, and was wondering if this was part of the problem as the numbers looklike port addresses. I'm using windows xp and outlook express.
I have asked this before, but on startup, I have several processes named svchost.exe that run on startup. One of these is a network service and every time, this particular one uses 50% +/- CPU. Apps will not open, nothing will function correctly until this is terminated.
I recently bought an ASUS A8JP Notebook PC (WinXp MCE, 1Gig RAM, 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo) and I guess it ran well the first day, but as soon as I installed all the needed software (and cleared out some factory installed bloatware), I noticed that the time for my Desktop to load after logon takes up to 2 minutes.Here's what I've done to try fix this
1. Defragmented HD 2. Turned off unwanted startup items and about 1/3 of the services at startup. 3. Tweaked and cleaned up the registry. 4. Flashed my BIOS to the latest Revision.
When my Toshiba laptop (p4 2.8, 768mb ram) boots up, the desktop background appears, but nothing else does for about 45 seconds. In the meantime, I can move my mouse freely and invoke taskmanager to start programs (File... new task). I'm pretty sure that this problem is not due to an excess of startup programs but instead due to some setting or manual time delay.
How many & what processes are necessary to start and run xp. Some maintanence programs that tell me how many running processes are there is around 20 to 30 processes. Which I think is slowing down the boot up of my laptop.
My son-in-law's PC went totally south so he put together a Barebones and installed XP Pro but he misplaced the Key # so he is unable to activate with MS. He installed a new primary HDD and borrowed a Key # temporarily. The PC does not boot the drive from the former PC which he installed as a slave drive. Belarc and Everest will not read that drive so no help there. He can open and look in the slave drive(F) and tried copying the wpa.dbl file to the new drive but it did not work, even in safe mode. Any ideas how he can recover the Key # from the old drive so he can use it on the new drive?
1- how many concurrents users will win xp pro 32 bit will allow ? (what i am trying to know is if i install an application on (a machine running win xp pro 32 bit )that is server application where 20 users can use it , i would like to know if all those users will be able to run that application installed from that Machine i an trying to use this machine acting as a server but running win xp pro, since win 2003 server with 25 user licenses is to expensive for us right now ? of course i will have hardware computer capable of doing this with a dual core processor and enough memory and a fast hardrive
I set up a new Dell Optiplex 620 lunchbox with XP SP2 Pro recently that has an issue I don't know how to resolve. I'd like the computer to start with the Number Lock engaged so I went into the BIOS and made sure that it was set to always be on. But when Windows takes over the startup procedure it shuts the Num Lock off. Why is Windows doing this and how to I fix it? Registry edit?
I am clueless when it comes to faxing. How do I find out my fax number. if someone send something to me. How do I get started with faxing something going out?
I know it's possible, but forgot the method. How do you command Windows to discover the folder where the certificate of authenticity number resides, that was originally used when installing the OS. I need to reload the OS from a recovery disk, but lost the original COA number.
I have 3 physical disks and work from the D drive with XP pro disk 1 has partitions C and N disk 2 has partitions D, E, F and G disk 3 has partitions H, I, J and K Just wondering how many Pagefile.sys files I need to have, as I did a search and found 3, on C, N and D. I thought one was enough ?
i got a new machine. I've been looking around and pretty much the only processors being sold are 64bit ones. So i guess i'll be getting a 64bit processor. I've been have been reading around about windows xp x64 and i've picked up that a large amount of software will not run under windows x64. We have some windows xp 32bit disks but should we go for x64?
Ive been asked to move a hard drive from 1 pc to another. The hard drive only has a restore disk for the operating system, and all the files need to stay intact. The hard drive on the other pc crashed & has been binned, this pc had a restore partition, so no op sys disk. Both pcs have licence stickers on them for Win 2k. I dont want to swap the stickers from 1 case to another, so, is it possible to change the operating system serial number to the one which is on the case without having to reinstall windows?
When I try to use Widows Update, I get the following error message: [Error number: 0x8DDD0002] To install updates from this website, you must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group on your computer. If you use Windows XP, you can see if you are an administrator by going to User Accounts in Control Panel. Note: If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings might also prevent you using this website. Contact your system administrator for help with updates. I am using a Dell Dimension 2400 Computer with Windows XP SP2. I have two accounts: Computer Administrator and Guest (account is off).
I will like to know from the Cnet uses that use windows xp sp2 to tell me how many viruses that they has on their pc. My record number is 105 viruses when doing a full system scan with the full paid version and updated version of Norton anti-virus 2004! I was surprised that i had that many viruses when i had been running norton for 3 or 4 months running full system scans once a week and a quick scan once everyday. I later then uninstalled norton becuase my computer was going too slow and installed avast antivirus. The first scan that i ran with avast as soon as i installed it found another 24 viruses. That is a total of 129 viruses.
Is there anyway I can specify a serial number when deploying a package via GPO? Its getting a bit tedious deploying the software then having to input the serial number 60 times.
