Stuff "running in the background".......

[*John*]

I'm still getting used to XP, but so far I really like it. One thing bothers
me though.....I hit a ctl+alt+del to see what was running in the background.
I hit the "Processes" tab and saw that there were 23 processes running! I
remember that when I was running '98 I had like 3 things running if I had no
programs open. I have to imagine that I have a bunch of stuff running that
doesn't need to be there.

1. What needs to be there? (I'm running Norton anti-virus software too).
How do I check to see what this stuff is?

2. How do I shut off what doesn't need to be running?

Thanks in advance,

John

 

[Chris Lanier]

Most of what you see are services in Windows XP. If you wish to cut down on
the number of services running check out
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

also if you search www.google.com for the name of the .EXE you can find out
what almost every program running it.

 

[Maureen Goldman]

Most of what you see are services in Windows XP. If you wish to cut down on
the number of services running check out
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

I'd suggest downloading blackviper's services .pdf file since it takes
a fair amount of time to go through his recommendations. It's not
difficult, but he explains one by one why he believes many can be
deactivated.