Just so Skuzzy can shake his head

[wrongwayric]

HP Pavilion a1520n, AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual core, nvidia geforce 6150, 1024 mb memory, 250gb hard drive.

This is a family members system and i am forbidden to change any of there set up, even if i could tweak there system to perform better. Now here is the Skuzzy head shaking portion. They currently have 81 processes running whenever the system is on and booted up.

Amazingly it is able to play AH with 45 to 50 fps, and very few crashes/freezes, ect..

40 of the 81 processes are factory installed HP garbage programs that you really don't need on 24/7. Try as i might i can not convince them that they would be better off, and there system would run better, with at least half or more of these processes shut down.

Only problem i seem to see happen is that once in awhile the clipboard page will spin around the clipboard. But it isn't a constant problem and the system has the AMD patches so i suspect the nvidia driver is causing it.

Just thought you'd get a chuckle out of this system set up.

[NOT]

download and install fsautostart. use it to turn off all the processes that you need to, then when you are done playing, just restart the comp and all is back to normal.




NOT

[Auger]

Or, if FSAutoStart isn't allowed, open up Task Manager and start killing processes.  Make a list of what you kill.  If deleting something makes the system hang or act all weird, reboot and remove that process from the list.  30-40 running processes is in the normal range. 

[Lusche]

Or, if FSAutoStart isn't allowed, open up Task Manager and start killing processes.  Make a list of what you kill.  If deleting something makes the system hang or act all weird, reboot and remove that process from the list.  30-40 running processes is in the normal range. 

He could simply google the various processes. Lot's of sites out there with info about them. Make a list about processes that can be killed without any harm. Then proceed as Auger aid.

[Krusty]

With AVG running I idle at about 25 processes for XP Pro SP2. I think that might include some auto-authentication thingy by Adobe but can't recall if I disable that and it keeps coming back or not.

[Masherbrum]

HP Pavilion a1520n, AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual core, nvidia geforce 6150, 1024 mb memory, 250gb hard drive.

This is a family members system and i am forbidden to change any of there set up, even if i could tweak there system to perform better. Now here is the Skuzzy head shaking portion. They currently have 81 processes running whenever the system is on and booted up.

Amazingly it is able to play AH with 45 to 50 fps, and very few crashes/freezes, ect..

40 of the 81 processes are factory installed HP garbage programs that you really don't need on 24/7. Try as i might i can not convince them that they would be better off, and there system would run better, with at least half or more of these processes shut down.

Only problem i seem to see happen is that once in awhile the clipboard page will spin around the clipboard. But it isn't a constant problem and the system has the AMD patches so i suspect the nvidia driver is causing it.

Just thought you'd get a chuckle out of this system set up.

I use this from time to time, it is a good resource to Bookmark:

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

I have XP Pro SP2 and with Firefox and WMP up I am at 25 processes.