Is my taskmanager all good?

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Hello there, is my task manager all good? and is there any .exe's i dont need or i can stop and wont corrupt anything, because 32 exe's seems a lot for me, it used to be about 20 :eek:

Theres Msn and IE and windows media there too, but dont include them

Thanks

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It doesn't look too bad. I have 27 processes running here, but realistically it's about 19 when you take into account Opera, MSN, Thunderbird, Winamp etc. But what is MOM.exe? ATI? If it is you could try ATI Tray Tools. You just need that and the individual driver components themselves not the full installers for the ATI Catalyst drivers. Download packages 1 and 3 from there and install ATI Tray Tools and then you should see that MOM.exe and the 2 ati2evxx.exe instances should disappear, doing that would reduce the number of your processes by three.

For any processes you aren't sure of, google the exe and see what you make of it. You may not need it and can stop it from running. Use Process Explorer to tell you what each svchost.exe is running. They run services for your PC. So you may be running some services that you don't need.

Use The Elder Geek along with Process Explorer to see what you are running and what it does. If you hover the mouse cursor over each instance of svchost.exe you will see a box telling you what that svchost.exe is responsible for. Obviously some services you have to run otherwise your PC won't work but you may be running some services that you don't need/want. If you then use the Services tool in the Administrative Tools on Control Panel you can disable any services you don't need at all or park into manual those you do need but not every time you boot up.

If you research all the services on all of your svchost.exe's you might be able to get rid of one or two instances. Some of them only run one or two services, I had that. They were unneeded services so I was able to disable them and in doing so remove the need for that particular svchost.exe to run. So you'll probably be able to reduce how many instances of svchost you need running; but you won't get rid of them all or merge them into one svchost instance. But you should be able to reduce the memory your PC is using a bit.

One tip I can give you, are you using the Windows Firewall? I don't so I disable the Application Layer Gateway service which means I don't have alg.exe running. Also you MUST have the Automatic Updates services running on Automatic if you use Windows Update. Even if you put it into manual it won't start when you run Windows Update. HOWEVER you can put the Background Intelligent Transfer service into manual. When you run Windows Update I presume the Automatic Update service runs the Background Intelligent Transfer service for you.

*Phew that's a massive post* :eek: :)
 
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No probs mate. Kudos to you for reading it all. I might edit the post and sort out the links so that the words they are associated with are the links.

Let me know if you have any problems or want a suggestion etc.
 
Pfft you trying to bait me TrUz? :p

Its not that I don't do much, its more that I don't want loads of processes running that I don't need. I just configure my PC in that way.
 
Thats nothing. One of the laptop's I have to use at work has 99 processes running before you even open up anything.

Its down to it being a tablet PC and rather than having 1 app to control it all, Toshiba have an app for every little thing thats different
 
Yeah laptops are harder to reduce the number of processes running. My flatmate has a Dell laptop and with all the buttons/launchers/wireless apps it's almost impossible to get his number of processes below 55. Why his Intel wireless card needs about 7 processes to run it I will never understand.
 
Pfft you XP users!

Vista manages all this and still runs faster than XP :p
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58 on XP
61 in vista, and that's without antivirus, without email, without locgitech drivers, ectetc just the essential App's I use.
 
Mine is a Laptop and I do have a few Toshiba process for the silly mouse stuck in the middle of the keys. Toshiba also do the Bluetooth stack for this laptop. I could turn everything off and reduce the processes to about 20-25 but if I am being honest I do not notice a great deal of difference. :)

TrUz
 
[DW]Muffin;10246105 said:
Do you use the Tosh Windows install or your own?
I just use what it pre-installs. I just use the recovery media to re-build my laptop. Can't be arsed doing it all myself. :)

TrUz
 
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