Re: Too Many Processes

How do you know you have too many processes? How many processes do you think
you should have, according to your calculations?

And how do you know that these processes are consuming too much memory?
Maybe they're consuming just the right amount of memory and you need more
RAM?

For questions about third party software, ask the software's technical
support. Oh yes...you can also do a web search for the name of a process.
--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

"Bob Day" <BobDay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u2CBJ2gPGHA.140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This is a repost, because I did not get an answer...Any help would be
appreciated.

Using Windows XP with all the latest updates...

I am a power user and in tech support, so I have a good understanding of
PCs. My problem is I have 72 processing running (i.e. msconfig) consuming
53% of my memory on my personal lap top. Virtually all of these are
non-microsoft, but related to
programs (some rarely used) on my computer (such as Adobe).

The description of each Process always seems to end with "this should only
be disabled if your are having problems with it". Well, I am not having
problems with any particular process, I am having problems with them
collectively consuming 53% of my memory and 20% of my CPU all the time.

So, I am finding if virtually impossible to to determine which I can
remove
without crippling the program it is related to.

I have already removed the obvious ones, and I have also gone through
Services and disabled the ones not needed (which is a different issue in
my
mind) . I essentially need a table (like the ones available for Services
in
various URLs ) that shows which process can be removed safely.

Any advise?

Bob Day



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