Doug said:
hey,
Ok, my physical memore is being taken up by programs/ process that i
have never heard of. How can i get rid of these programs and free up
my physical memory? More importantly how do i keep them from coming
back?
I cannot believe the irrelevancies some people post in response to
questions. Anyway, there are two sources for memory consumption in the
background (excluding programs you are running yourself): startup
applications, and system services. Both can be controlled from
Start/Run command/type: msconfig [enter]. Select the startup tab.
Uncheck those programs you do not want or need to start. Well, most of
those are indecipherable so use this site as a guide.
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
Make a note of the controlling application so you can manually start
the program and select from the program options not to start
automatically at startup.
System services can be modified to some extent in msconfig; but the
complete list is in Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services. Use
this site as a guide to which services can be disabled, manually, or
automatically started.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm
Q