"Processes" running
How do you know which processes that are running are needed? How many is too many? I have approx. 60 running on mine.
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Mountain Mama wrote:fj12ryder wrote:
Windows 7? If so, that's probably pretty close to normal. It depends on what programs you're running. Black Viper has some good write-ups for various Windows OS's.
No, I'm still using XP.
Yeah, 60 processes running on XP is quite over the top.
Just checked my home PC and with FireFox browser running I have 29 processes running.
Take a GOOD look at your "tray icons" at the bottom right of your screen. Many of these tray icons are completely unnecessary, wasting a lot of your PCs processor and memory.
Simply put, if you have more than five or six tray icons you have too many running. When you install software it often DEFAULTS to adding the tray icon, don't allow it. These try Icons basically mean that the entire program you installed LAUNCHES and is running ALL THE TIME.
You can safely disable nearly every single tray icon and it will not affect your PC in a negative way at all, if nothing else you will gain speed back.
On edit.. as a side note, my previous company PC issued PC came from our IT dept with 70+ running proceses, that PC even thought it was a 2.2 gig dual core with 4 gig of ram was a slug. I managed to trim down the tray icons to 8 and the processes dropped to 65, better but still a slug..
I now have a company PC, 2.8 gig dual core with 4gig of ram with Win 7, 85 plus processes :M and my home PC which is a P4 at 2.8 gig running XP runs circles around the company issued dual core...
