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Too many processes running
Name: Dreedraffs Date: September 7, 2003 at 14:18:24 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: T-bird 1.2 256MO
Comment:
I have too many processes running on my PC. There are about 27 that starts automatically when I starts Windows and I even have svchost.exe running 4 times!
How do I get rid of this? How can I know which processes I need to keep and whichs ones I need to remove? And how do I remove 'em?
Name: ger Date: September 7, 2003 at 17:42:44 Pacific
Reply:
There are a lot of background processes in Windows 2000 that need to be running. Here's a nice page showing which Services are safe to change: http://www.blkviper.com/WIN2K/servicecfg.htm
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Response Number 2
Name: Dreedraffs Date: September 8, 2003 at 11:45:49 Pacific
Reply:
Ok Thanks
But how Do I remove the ones I don't have to keep running?
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Response Number 3
Name: ger Date: September 8, 2003 at 18:43:57 Pacific
Reply:
Just follow the guidelines from that web site using the "Safe" recommendation. Start -- Run -- services.msc Double click the item you want to change, then set to "Disable". Don't change any until you read about what each is for at Black Viper's site. Save that web page in case you have any problems and need to reset things back to their default settings.
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