48 Processes

MarcLister · 26 Jan 2007 at 12:13

MarcLister said:
38 with Winamp, Thunderbird, Firefox and WLM running. I can make it 36 by ending the ruddy PerfectDisk processes.

I have some processes running for my Bluetooth dongle. Might be a good time to check all the processes running again and sort them out. Could be doing an nLited install over the weekend.

Plus I do have 2Gb RAM so its not as bad as it could be.

Did a bit of work last night on processes that weren't needed such as the Creative ones. Managed to get rid of one or two Bluetooth tray apps and tweaked the services a bit as well. Now 28 processes running, down from 36. This is with Winamp, Thunderbird, Firefox and WLM running as last night.

zetec452 · 26 Jan 2007 at 12:21

78 processes here with my laptop. Mind you I have a few apps open. :S

MarcLister · 26 Jan 2007 at 12:23

JonRohan said:
78 processes here with my laptop. Mind you I have a few apps open. :S

WOW. Nice one. :eek:

Do they all disappear when you shut the apps down though?

zetec452 · 26 Jan 2007 at 12:25

Goes to 70 with all my apps closed.

I have a busy laptop with a lot of workie stuff on it.

MarcLister · 26 Jan 2007 at 12:26

JonRohan said:
Goes to 70 with all my apps closed.

I have a busy laptop with a lot of workie stuff on it.

Ah right so I spose most of those 70 have to be running all the time to allow the apps to work properly then?

TrUz · 26 Jan 2007 at 12:29

57 process here on my Laptop.

TrUz

zetec452 · 26 Jan 2007 at 12:32

MarcLister said:
Ah right so I spose most of those 70 have to be running all the time to allow the apps to work properly then?

I could probably stop most of them and enable them when needed but its a pain.

I've got things like: VMWare, apache, php, mysql, vpn software, remote administration software.

My laptop still runs fine, most of the processes take up very little memory.

rickyt · 26 Jan 2007 at 23:05

@MarcLister Yes it would have been nice , but ,I've been caught out before on forums [and I'm a member of many] giving out live links and facing a ban . So , I dont bother now . Using Google usually brings results.

MarcLister · 26 Jan 2007 at 23:08

rickyt said:
@MarcLister Yes it would have been nice , but ,I've been caught out before on forums [and I'm a member of many] giving out live links and facing a ban . So , I dont bother now . Using Google usually brings results.

Right OK. And what was so bad about this link that you couldn't post it? I mean well done for thinking about whether a link is suitable but unless I've forgotten something about the program I can't see what would have been unsuitable about posting it.

manoz · 26 Jan 2007 at 23:24

22 on my laptop with nothing open. 40 on my desk but it is running x64

My cousin own a dell and he has over 70 at startup :eek:

bledd · 27 Jan 2007 at 02:20

neocon said:
I got 21 with steam on.

Don't bother with antivirus.
Get rid of zone alarm and use windows fire wall.

thats what i do too

you only really need av if you're visiting dodgy sites (imo of course)

Fuzz · 28 Jan 2007 at 16:01

Sounds like I'm doing OK with 29 running at the mo.
I've got FireFox,Thunderbird, MSNmesssenger, AdAware, Ad Watch, Media player and Task Mgr open as I type. :cool:

Meatball · 28 Jan 2007 at 16:49

28 on XP Home with Spybot, Kaspersky and Firefox running

Steve Watford · 28 Jan 2007 at 17:24

18 with Xfire and Steam and Nod32.