May 2006 computer problem thread

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I've only had my laptop about 7 weeks, and I haven't installed all that much on it, but there are a full 73 processes running on it right now, and it takes a good couple of minutes to boot up. Surely this is too many? I have virus/adware checked it and it's clean (apparently), so I assume all these processes are kosher progs run by installed apps.

So - is there a "proper" way to find out what I really need running and what I can disable? Is there any better way than unticking startup programs via msconfig?

Thanks in advance!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

(there are about 35 processes running on my desktop, which has a lot more on it and has been going for the last 2 years. The only real difference is the desktop is XP Home and the laptop is XP Pro)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 April 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

I've got XP Pro on this laptop and it has about 20 processes running. I occasionally do a quick g00gle on any suspect exe names to see what they belong to, or sometimes run Tasklist /svc >C:ianaginfo.txt from the cmd line to see what's going on in the svchost.exes. Then I can hunt down and remove anything I don't really want running.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 27 April 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

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