Any guides to cutting down processes in vista?

Gerard · 1 Mar 2007 at 21:34

Ive around 46 running at the minute (why the hell are there about 12 svchost.exe's running??). Just wondering are there any proper guides as to whats safe to disable and whats not?

JohnnyG · 1 Mar 2007 at 21:50

This is quite handy

toString · 1 Mar 2007 at 21:54

I think you'll find there's a shed load of svchost's in xp too.

esoteric · 1 Mar 2007 at 22:15

I too was contemplating cutting down of the whopping processes Vista has (I had 28 in XP) while I didnt actually cut them down, its like Vista knew my intentions and activated a defence mechanism which led me to reinstall Vista after 2 days of operation, now im back up and running im trying my best not to upset it, and I already nearly failed after 2 hours or so of a fresh install.

Tread carefully is all I can say and make a restore point manually before you play, and if anyone that hasnt installed Vista yet and plans to reads this, I highly suggest the 1st thing you do on your 1st time on Desktop is to make a restore point

Gerard · 1 Mar 2007 at 22:31

KingAdora said:
I think you'll find there's a shed load of svchost's in xp too.

5 or so in xp, this has 12 for some reason.

DAS · 1 Mar 2007 at 22:52

Lightweight. I have 16 at the moment!

zytok · 2 Mar 2007 at 13:35

nice (but long) guide to tweaking Vista at www.tweakguides.com
There is basic services stuff in there amongst other stuff.

Wingz · 2 Mar 2007 at 13:57

i found that disabling the Aero feature (Desktop Window Manager Session Manager) saves u around 30 megs of ram :eek:

Rebelius · 2 Mar 2007 at 13:59

Wingz said:
i found that disabling the Aero feature (Desktop Window Manager Session Manager) saves u around 30 megs of ram

ummm... why bother buying 2GB if you care about something that's less than 2% of it and makes the experience much better (Imho)