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System Processes!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:55 pm
by DJ Tucker
here is a pic of all my system processes.

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

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:15 pm
by 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

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:35 pm
by 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 :lol: shame it can't do more :roll:

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:40 pm
by 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

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:55 pm
by 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.

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:00 pm
by skier
ibleet wrote: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 :) )

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:42 pm
by ibleet
skier wrote: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. :finga:

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 4:13 pm
by skier
ibleet wrote:Damn Microsoft and all their operating systems. :finga:
i know rite?

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 2:19 am
by 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 :-k

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:59 am
by Darkstar
ibleet wrote:
skier wrote: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. :finga:
i think you can add it
taskbar properties, start menu tab customize > check run command

:drinkers:

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:32 am
by 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.....

:drinkers:

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:43 am
by skier
Darkstar wrote: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)

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 1:28 pm
by 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.

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:06 pm
by 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.

Re: System Processes!

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:18 pm
by 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.

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Re: System Processes!

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:27 pm
by skier
geokilla wrote: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