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    Too Many Processes Running on M140

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by mingusdew, May 11, 2006.

  1. mingusdew

    mingusdew Newbie

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    Hi All -

    First off, thanks for the great site. It’s helped me considerably. I received my XPS M140 about a week ago, got the system disc and all the drivers I needed. I was able to re-install XP MCE without a hitch, installed all the drivers and repaired Media Direct.

    My problem is I’m still running about 47 processes after boot-up. The only thing I have installed software wise is AVG anti-virus. 47 seems too high.

    I checked the msconfig startup list and tried to close what I didn’t need, but there was one item that was completely blank and another with just a square icon as the name and description. Not sure what those are.

    Any idea what I can do to get the number of processes down?

    One other problem I have came during the initial Media Center setup. When I got to the point where I had to test my speakers, an error pops up saying I don’t have a video decoder installed and to re-boot. I’m not sure what I need here.

    Thanks in advance for your help!!
     
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    USAFdude02 NBR Reviewer & Deity NBR Reviewer

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    My advice would be get Regcleaner. It will clean out some of the stuff from your system registry that you don't need. Also TuneXP is a great program for reducing the amount of processes running. This should bring that down.

    Hope this helps.
     
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  3. mingusdew

    mingusdew Newbie

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    Thanks for the advice.

    Any idea about that Video Decoder that MCE setup is telling me I'm missing? I seem to be able to run video fine.
     
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    USAFdude02 NBR Reviewer & Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Go to the green button:

    www.thegreenbutton.com

    From what I have read they have the lastest Decoders etc.
     
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    Any ideas about the two things in the startup menu mentioned above?
     
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