What dyou make of my Task manager in XP ?
 

This is a new system, never been on the internet or anything.
Anyway, heres what seems to be running....It seems to be a a hell of a lot of stuff.
Not really used XP Pro before, always been a Win98 user.
Is this normal or are there some things I can take out. If so, how ?

Many thanks people.

Re: What dyou make of my Task manager in XP ?
 

You don't need qttask.

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Try Black Vipers service configuration page

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That's because the WinNT/2K/XP kernel uses services and the Win9x kernel does not. 22 processes isn't bad however, you should see Longhorn!

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I have 31 running on a fairly newish install of XP Pro.

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Well I could make a pretty paper hat or a dinosour......

...sorry, couldn't resist

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must be a hell of a system with 22 processors :disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd:

sorry couldnt resist :D :D :D

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Make that processes ;) :blush:

Damn keyboard :dunce:

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22 is pretty good, svchost tends to pad the numbers out a bit on it's own lol
I'm up to 40 ish processes after a clean install but a lot of that is anti-virus, firewall, skinning software, rainlendar, dockbar and bluetooth software. (oh and firefox running ;) )

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43 running on my 3y.o. system
.................and why have I got 2 instances of svchost.exe running? :confused:
edit--forget that question: Taken from here......a very good site for explaining services......well worth a look! :tu:

Re: What dyou make of my Task manager in XP ?
 

only 2? That's normal many of windows services all come under that name, but some viruses pose as it too.

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ok why have i got 3 , a local a network and a system one :disturbd: :disturbd: , is this bad :erm:

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See my last post........... ;)

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You have a dock....on windows? Which dock?

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I have only 19 processes running, and CPDN uses 3 up ;)

I also have IE open, TKC, and messenger.

That usually drops to about 13 when everything is closed :p:

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WOW. I could almost get that before i installed XP2 and NAV 2005

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Forgot about this applications list........the mother of all such lists imo :erm:

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Only Objectdock with a few nice icons that I found around the internet :)

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Pretty! :)

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It does the job, I use icons from sites like this
http://www.foood.net/ as they help the overall look of it :)

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You get that less processe list when you disable and stop uneeded services and software that isn't important ;)

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43 processes on mine

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43??? :Yikes: :disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd:

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45 Processes

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What the HELL are you running? :disturbd: :disturbd: :disturbd:

I have WinAmp, Skype, Messenger, O&O Defrag, IE, BOINC + CPDN and TKC, and I only have 23 processes :erm:

And that is a big list to me, when I go in-game I close EVERYTHING except for things like TeamSpeak :rolleyes:

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I have all the usual system tasks, Messenger, ZA, AV, Firefox.

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53 at the minute. About 5 of them are for Sophos, I've got MSN, Zone Alarm, DAP, 2 IE, AVG, My USB Radio, Ghost and CD/DVD Utilities.

Re: What dyou make of my Task manager in XP ?
 

Ah thanks everyone.
I feel re-assured now as I wondered where on earth they came from as I have nothing running and hardly nothing installed.
Anything else from that list that come out ?

Thanks again.

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56 here :o

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57 here includes aim ati2evxx, atiptaxx boinc, csrss, ctfmon, eEBSvc, explore, Iexploere, incd, ipodservice, itunes helper, javeeaw, lsass, mdm, msmsgsm pccguide, pcclietn, pccpfw, qttask, realsced, rundll32, serviceses, setiathome, smss, spool, stats cliend straty svchose (x6) system, sys ide, tsk mgr, tmntsev, tmo agent, tmproxy, wcescomm, winlogon, wuauclt, wzqkpick

is that bad :shrug:

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36 here with a couple of progs running as well ;)

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31 this morning

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Don't forget that 1 of the tasks reported will actually be task manager itself ;)
41 here but I could unload my bluetooth, skinning app, dockbar, rainlendar etc and go down to 30-32 if I wanted to :p:

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56 on the office PC. With Word, Outlook and Internet Explorer loaded.

Is this a big deal, the system idle process is still using 98% of resource.

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I know this may sound thick :dunce: but is there a program that I can download that will shut down automatically programmes that I don't need running in Task Manager, I have loads running and don't know what to do with them and weather I need them.

I'm sure this is slowing down my system.

The last time I shut down some random programmes my system shut down.

As you can guess I know very little about PC :dozey:

Re: What dyou make of my Task manager in XP ?
 

Dont shut down random processes :erm: have a look at the link in post #3 for an idea of what is safe to shut down.

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This one?

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Nope, post 3, this one ;) If you look at the bar above each seperate post there is a number, those are the post numbers that we sometimes mention :)

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39 processes taking up about 200mb of RAM.

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That's the one I used to shut down processes I didn't need, and saved 100MB of memory for it. With everything closed, some times the processes can drop below 10 since I have such less services running.

Also helps speed up main applications, just make sure you don't shut down ones that ARE required, or you may need to do a bit of formatting :D

I can't remember how many run on boot-up on mine, can't check for another hour either :(

I usually have 400-450MB of memory free with everything closed, which is GOOD for games, and I only have 512MB memory ;)