Re: # porgrams running when doing nothing
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:57:16 -0700
Brian wrote:
I have 39 programs running when I have nothing running on my desktop.
Thats seems like a lot. Where can I go to get help and knowing what
programs to shut down etc.
Programs or processes? Where do you see this number?
My view is that how many you run is irrelevant. *Which* you run can be very
important. Here's my standard blurb on this subject:
On each program you don't want to start automatically, check its Options to
see if it has the choice not to start (make sure you actually choose the
option not to run it, not just a "don't show icon" option). Many can easily
and best be stopped that way. If that doesn't work, run MSCONFIG from the
Start | Run line, and on the Startup tab, uncheck the programs you don't
want to start automatically.
However, if I were you, I wouldn't do this just for the purpose of running
the minimum number of programs. Despite what many people tell you, you
should be concerned, not with how *many* of these programs you run, but
*which*. Some of them can hurt performance severely, but others have no
effect on performance.
Don't just stop programs from running willy-nilly. What you should do is
determine what each program is, what its value is to you, and what the cost
in performance is of its running all the time. You can get more information
about these at http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html. If you can't find it
there, try google searches and ask about specifics here.
Once you have that information, you can make an intelligent informed
decision about what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of.
--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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