What dyou make of my Task manager in XP ?

[Halcyon]

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.

You don't need qttask.

[Ramrod]

Try Black Vipers service configuration page

[jamesclarke555]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

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.

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!

[Graham M]

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

[andygrif]

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

...sorry, couldn't resist

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by jamesclarke555

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

must be a hell of a system with 22 processors

sorry couldnt resist

[jamesclarke555]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

must be a hell of a system with 22 processors

sorry couldnt resist

Make that processes

Damn keyboard

[Paul K]

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 )

[Ramrod]

43 running on my 3y.o. system
.................and why have I got 2 instances of svchost.exe running?
edit--forget that question:

In normal conditions multiple instances of Svchost.exe run at the same time. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services, so that separate services can be run depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started.

Taken from here......a very good site for explaining services......well worth a look!

[downquark1]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

43 running on my 3y.o. system
.................and why have I got 2 instances of svchost.exe running?

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

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by Ramrod

43 running on my 3y.o. system
.................and why have I got 2 instances of svchost.exe running?
edit--forget that question:

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

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by paulyoung666

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

See my last post...........

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Paul

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 )

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

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