Re: I have 61 porcesses running

Payne

How much RAM memory is installed?

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

You should be able to gather more information from Task Manager. With
the Processes tab open select View, Select, Columns and check the boxes
before Peak Memory Usage and Virtual Memory size. What are the figures
for the 6 processes using the largest amounts?

You should not use msconfig sepite what others have suggested. Not only
does it not disclosed all processes loading but you can create problems
not knowing what each item represents.

Use Autoruns to investigate your 61 processes
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Autoruns.mspx

With Autoruns you can uncheck an item, which disables it from starting,
or you can can right click an item and then delete it. If you uncheck
you can recheck to re-enable the item. It is a much safer approach than
editing the Registry. Another useful feature of the programme is that
you can right click an item and select Search Online to get information
about the item selected.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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payne wrote:
i want to be able to stop unimportant processes from running. and i
want to free up RAM. i was told that 60 is way to many processes
from dell support. So I am trying to learn how to do this so i can
make our computer last for a long time and not have to pay someone in
a year because it is slowing down. prevenetive maintence measures.

"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

payne wrote:
And my Ram is always at 38%. My brother has the identical computer
and all same components. He has 48 processes and ram at 26%. What
do i do from here.


Don't know. It's help if you were to tell us what you hope to
accomplish.


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