Windows XP Home and Task Manager

[aknimitz]

Ok, when I had 98SE, I was agressive in disabling stuff in the task manager that I did want and I thougth was eating up memory. But with XP, I dont know what to kill and what not to.

First of all, how do I permanently kill Microsoft Messenger? Second of all, here isa  listt of processes I have running, and the memory they are consuming. Any assistance is greatly appreciated!

DEVLDR32.EXE  2.4mb
taskmgr.exe  3.2mb
RUNDLL32.exe  2.9MB
NAVAPW32.exe  5.5mb
EXPLORER.EXE 14MB (not IEXPLORE.EXE)
SPOOLSV.EXE 3.1mb
SVCHOST.EXE NETWORK SERVICE 1.7mb
SVCHOST.EXE LOCAL SERVICE 2.8mb
SVCHOST.EXE SYSTEM 13mb
SVCHOST.EXE SYSTEM 2.4mb
SERVICES.EXE  2.7mb
CSRSS.EXE 2.8mb

I have no programs (that I can see) running in the background. Again, thanks for your time and help.

Here is a little about my system in the event you need it:

Asus P4T-E, 1.8Ghz
256 RDRAM
GF4 Ti4400 (128mb)
SBLive Sound Card

Nim

[Pfunk]

Kill the Navpc whatever it is.  If I remember correctly that is Norton Antivirus.

[Gunthr]

Try this, Nimitz. (If you experience a slow-down of Outlook Express after removing Messenger, as some do, there is a tweak on the same site to fix that too.)

I haven't done this myself, so I can't vouch for it...


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[Lephturn]

There are several ways you can disable Windows Messenger. For Windows XP Professional computers that run Windows Messenger versions 4.0 and up, use the Group Policy Editor. Here's how:


Run Gpedit.msc.
Drill down to Local Computer Policy | Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Windows Messenger.
Select Do Not Allow Windows Messenger To Run.
Within the dialog box, choose Enabled.
Click OK and close all the remaining windows.

To disable Windows Messenger, versions 4.5 and up, for Windows XP Professional and Home Edition computers, you can edit the registry. Follow these steps:


Run Regedit.exe.
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft.
On the Edit menu, highlight New and click Key. Type Messenger in the dialog box.
Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Messenger.
Create another key with the name Client.
Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Messenger\Client.
On the Edit menu, highlight New and select DWORD Value. Type PreventRun for the DWORD Value name. Double-click this newly created value and type 1 in the Value data box.
Click OK.
Exit the Registry Editor and close Windows Messenger.

Note: Editing the registry is risky, so be sure you have a verified backup before making any changes.

[Reschke]

The easiest way to kill Messenger is to rename the damn folder. Then it will never bother you again until you go to that folder and open it up and manually start Messenger. After I renamed the folder I deleted it and have not had any problems. The only good thing about Messenger is that I could use it to access some of my clients computers remotely to help with WinXP Pro issues.