WHETHER to terminate processes...?
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| What processes can I terminate from the Task Manager? Whenever I try it, Windows tells me I could disrupt stability. Are there any that I cannot terminate? And if I do mess something up, is it fixed by restarting or can it mess up the OS permanently? Also, if there are loads of processes running (with no programs running) is that mostly OS stuff or should it be relatively clear? How do I stop unnecessary processes from starting up? |
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| As far as I know, you don't mess up the OS permanently by deleting running processes. What could happen, is that the current session become instable, and you have to reboot. If you want to see which application are ran at startup, then click on start--run; type the command MSCONFIG in the text box, and then press enter. In the window which will appear, press on the tab named boot or startup, if I recall fine. There are listed all the processes that are started when the system boots. The ones which are started at boot, have the left side checkbox checked, that is, the checkbox indicates whenever the process will be started or not. Changes made there may affect the performances, so be careful with what you check and uncheck. Good luck, Sergio. |
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| Is there any way of finding out what each process does and therefore whether it's necessary to launch with startup? |
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| Yep... http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/index.html http://startup.iamnotageek.com/ |
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| Brilliant, thanks! |
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