To many Running Processes

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From: Naftali_360 (Naftali_360_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/23/04

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    I need to know what it the default number of running processes on a Xp
    machine, where can i get information about how to identify what processes are
    running, currently im running 39 processes, is this bad and if it is how
    would i get rid of them since my virus software, ad-aware and spybot doesnt
    work. I want to know what is the processes running on my machine things like:
    avmp.exe or kavss.exe i like to know how to identify these processes and
    more...please help me with anything you fine people can with......

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