processes??

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I'm working on a Dell my son-in-law took to Iraq for a year. I have a little
experience including messing up before.. This is an older laptop that has
little space left and I want to clean it up to just use for Word and
internet. QUESTION: Looking a the task manager there are alot of processes
running that I don't think should- syntrenh.exe acs.exe, camtray.exe,both
iexplorer.exe and iexplorer.exe, to name a few. How do I remove the ones I
need to? Where would I check info, I always get sites that want me to run
some scan or buy something? Also how do you take a copy of a window like the
task manager?
Thanks!!!!!
 
sydneysnana wrote:
| I'm working on a Dell my son-in-law took to Iraq for a year. I have a
| little experience including messing up before.. This is an older laptop
| that has little space left and I want to clean it up to just use for Word
| and internet. QUESTION: Looking a the task manager there are alot of
| processes running that I don't think should- syntrenh.exe acs.exe,
| camtray.exe,both iexplorer.exe and iexplorer.exe, to name a few. How do I
| remove the ones I need to? Where would I check info, I always get sites
| that want me to run some scan or buy something? Also how do you take a
| copy of a window like the task manager?
| Thanks!!!!!

Sydney,

There's more than one way to skin the cat.Check what is running at start-up.
Many programs set themselves up to run something at start up. Use their
configuration options to make sure they don't. Also check the Startup folder
and the registry's Run keys.

Or, run MS Config:

Start > Run > type in:

msconfig

hit Enter > look at the tabs.

But MS Config is more of a Win98 app than a WinXP app.
 
This computer has xp running but some of the stuff looks like a different
verision- "csrss.exe"? Shoud I use the MS Config even with XP?
 
sydneysnana wrote:
| This computer has xp running but some of the stuff looks like a different
| verision- "csrss.exe"? Shoud I use the MS Config even with XP?
|


That's a legitmate process .. let it be ..

:)

Most apps that run in the background can be configured not to through the
app's options or somesuch. NT-based OSes from Microsoft also run Services in
the background and you can reconfigure some of these too .. but .. you
really have to read up on Services before changing any of them as you can
easily render the machine not bootable with a misstep.

One of the best thing is to defrag the harddrives .. and another thing is
not have too many 3rd party apps running from startup. Yet another is to
increase the RAM. This can really boost performance and is worth the price
of the RAM it if the system needs it.

I bought a second hand IBM laptop a while back and then went to a store and
doubled the RAM. The performance boost made a big big difference in the
computer's performance.

Lastly, if it's not too much effort, if you have the CD-ROMs and product
keys etc. is to do a clean install of Windows. You don't know where that
laptop has been so to speak and a clean install may fix a lot of problems
including performance problems. If you can bite that bullet, you may be
pleasantly surprised.

By the way, right ALT + PrintScrn copies the focused window's screenshot
onto the clipboard. You can then paste the image off the clipboard into a
graphics program such as MS Paint to get the screenshot. In more modern
versions of MS Paint you can save the image as a .jpg or .gif or .png image.
 
Thanks so much! I'm going to look at all this later. Gotta run out...
Might be getting back with you later???
 
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