System Processes!

[DJ Tucker]

here is a pic of all my system processes.



Any chance that you guys could tell me what system processes can be stopped permanantly to increase available memory?

[skier]

you could try using Game Booster, what it does is shut down un necessary apps/processes for when you game(most processes arent used in normal use anyway) it'll shut down about half your processes i'd say

but i disable the sidebar, don't have an EA game installed(pnkbstrA), disabled indexing, and for the most part i disable anything i don't think i'll use/have never heard of, but i think it works better for XP than win7 IMO

[DJ Tucker]

i have game booster and it only shuts down 2 processes. not sure which ones but it drops from 54 to 52 processes and frees up 50mb of memory shame it can't do more

[skier]

yeah, you need to go through your services and search for ones you won't use(via control panel or some windows app somewhere), i have forgotten how i did it, but i'll post when i figure out how again

[ibleet]

Go to Start: Run: Msconfig and remove unnecessary services (check box to Hide all Microsoft services first) and start up items.

During most PC optimizations that I do, I remove at least 20-30 unnecessary entries.

[skier]

Go to Start: Run: Msconfig and remove unnecessary services

thats what it was, oh and in 7, just type msconfig in the search(because there is no "Run" in 7 ibleet )

[ibleet]

oh and in 7, just type msconfig in the search(because there is no "Run" in 7 ibleet )

True enough! You got me on that one bro! Damn Microsoft and all their operating systems.

[skier]

Damn Microsoft and all their operating systems.

i know rite?

[DJ Tucker]

after seeing all the processes i am not at all sure what processes to disable i have disabled 4 processes that i know of but thats it anything else that you guys know of that i wont need on start up

[Darkstar]

oh and in 7, just type msconfig in the search(because there is no "Run" in 7 ibleet )

True enough! You got me on that one bro! Damn Microsoft and all their operating systems.

i think you can add it
taskbar properties, start menu tab customize > check run command

[Darkstar]

you have Vista 64 bit running?
instead of msconfig in the run box type" services.msc" Check your services with one of the sites on the internet that explains what each one is and then decide if you want to rmove/disable it.

i would definitely turn of the searchindexer.....

[skier]

i would definitely turn of the searchindexer.....

yeah i disable that with about 30 other things, mostly having to do with the network(network browser turned off among things, but i still has internetz)

[ibleet]

Ya, most of what is in startup in completely unnecessary, and a lot of what is in services (non-ms) is equally unnecessary.

If you check a newly formatted XP PC, there will be no items in startup and few if any non-ms items in services. They are all added by third party programs.

[DJ Tucker]

could you tell me what processes to disable as i not sure and had a look on internet but not got much time these days and it woud take me a while to do them all.

[geokilla]

That's nothing. I got 76 somehow...When I did a clean install of Windows 7 RC back over the summer, I was sitting at 40 processes since day 1.

[skier]

That's nothing. I got 76 somehow...When I did a clean install of Windows 7 RC back over the summer, I was sitting at 40 processes since day 1.]

well geo you have a TON of programs OPEN, and a TON of others installed with processes that run 24/7 like 2 pnkbstr's for EA games(useless entirely) and about 12 processes are specifically from Folding too

(i have 12 processes from F@H, with just a dualcore, and two gpu clients) 68 processes w/out gamebooster & w/F@H; 38 processes w/ game booster and without folding