ALOT of processes? O_o (W7J)

Hello, i recently recieved my W7J and i've been tryin to "speed it up" on boot and programs, etc etc.

I was trying to cut down on startup programs in MSCONFIG, and trim down some services under Administrative Tools in the control panel. I've done away with a few, but i still have 57 processes .

I built my desktop, so i didnt have many processes at all...

I obviously didnt build my W7J, so i'm not sure what i can and cannot remove safely.

just wondering if some of these can be removed safely (has anyone toyed with it yet) or if i should leave them all 'till i get better aquainted with the laptop?


I did google searches for all the programs listed in MSConfig, but apparently, they are all important?

(except for RTHDCPL.exe and ALCMTR.exe.... both of which i cant seem to find much information on. =/)

 

i have 59...lol, but it still works fine, thats all I care!

 

follow this at your own discretion.

drop down menu at the bottom will lead to more tweaks.

 

Don't use msconfig... Instead, go to Start>Run>type "services.msc"
Here, you can check out all the processes and to set them to Auto, Manual, or Disabled.

Here's a site with Black Viper's list (excellent resource for this type of tweaking)... it gives you a guide to all those processes running, so you can determine yourself if you'll be needing them:
http://www.dead-eye.net/WinXP Services.htm

 

i did what led zepp suggests and freed up about 150 mb of ram

 

I have 47 processes running now. And that's with windows updating, yahoo widgets, aim, firefox, peerguardian, flashgot and a few other small things running. O_O

 

i have about 784 ram and 420-80 free on average and my computer (which is crap ) is running fine (except with games)

 

How long does it take 2 boot? MSCONFIG is a good start... Also be sure to defrag and run disk clean up now and then... Check for spyware and Adaware once a week. And if you are running norton antivirus uninstall that and install Avast! lol

 

Concerned about 57. I was mad because my other Windows install had close to 80 processes on start up. I was hoping to get to 55. Now I am running around 60. What kind of performance boost are you trying to get?

 

Just now while browsng and on msn, i have 25 proceses taking up ~200MB of RAM.

Best thing to do IMO is to reformat and install only what you need. Since you built your desktop this shouldnt really be a problem for you.

 

after boot there's about 200 - 300mb of ram usage and about 40 procs running

 

that vipers list is **** good. i'm going to see if i can eliminate some now... along with norton. (**** thats a hog).

also, downloading Avast! now.

how do you guys know how much ram is being used though? a program? or somewhere in properties?

thanks again! most helpful!

 

Ctrl-Alt-Del, Task Manager, then Performance tab. System memory use is right side under the cpu trace boxes (Physical memory).

 

ahh, dur, i should have known that, lol.

thanks