Processess

[Guest]

My pc is running very slow. I have anywhere from 50 to 60 processess running in the back ground. As I go to Task Manager I try to delete them but a message comes up that my system may become unstable should I delete them
Should I ignore the message and delete the process trees. Should it bcome unstable I believe that I could go to a restore point

 

[Ron]

Go to System Restore and find a date when your system did not have all those
processes.

My pc is running very slow. I have anywhere from 50 to 60 processess

running in the back ground. As I go to Task Manager I try to delete them but
a message comes up that my system may become unstable should I delete them.

Should I ignore the message and delete the process trees. Should it bcome

unstable I believe that I could go to a restore point

 

[Kelly]

David,

Your best bet is to get familiar with what the processes are for. All
running programs will be listed in Msconfig/Startup and Msinfo32.

 

[Ron]

Kelly,

How do you identify startup on Windows 2000 since there is no msconfig
option?

 

[Kelly]

Hi Ron,

I don't have W2K installed right now to answer that, nor have worked within
that OS to any extent. I would first suggest using/reading the boot log.

The log is kept in the %SystemRoot% directory (normally C:\WINNT) in a file
called NTBTLOG.TXT.

To verify if it is activated: Reboot and press F8 and highlight Enable Boot
Logging. Press enter and continue booting.

Good luck!

 

[Guest]

Or perhaps going to HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run or HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run in the registry. It should hold the values of the startup items that msconfig would reveal

 

[Kelly]

That would be great advice, if all running processes were listed there.

 

[Guest]

Not too sure if W2k has it, but running tasklist in a command prompt may reveal some. Tasklist /svc wil show whats in the svchosts. Usually msinfo32 has a list of running tasks.
Worst comes to worst you can copy msconfig from an XP machine adn paste it into W2k. It have run it succesfully on a few test machines at work.