Re: CPU usage.

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55 for me would be pretty normal. There's a program out there that is
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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 1.0gb RAM, 160gb HD
"J" <nope@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi all.
> I use an excellent graphics program which runs slow and after checking
> that it's not my memory, space, spyware or virus issues, it may be that I
> need to get a new graphics card that will blast more.
> Before that though it was also suggested that I may have too many programs
> running in the background. I've minimised my start-up list to just
> antivirus and firewall and bare Window essentials.
> But when I go to task manager to processes, there seems to be way too much
> stuff there. 55 and most I don't recognise.
> Is there a way of finding out what these are. Or at best finding out what
> XP needs to have so I can stop process on the others.
> Thanks.
> J
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