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I have just bought a new computer with XP installed. I used to have one that
ran WINDOWS '98 and knew where to find out what system resources were
available by clicking the My Computer Icon on desktop. Now, with XP, that
info isn't in that place. I did figure out that it was in what used to be the
'close program' box accessed with the CNTL/ALT/DEL combo. But under
performance there it gives me a CPU animated graph showing percentage being
used as opposed to what is remaining. It also shows the page file usage and
below that it gives 4 areas of info: TOTALS: handles, threads, and processes,
then next to that is the Physical Memory area, and finally the Kernal memory
and Commit Charge areas. None of this means anything to me unfortunately.
Where can I find out what they mean?
Second question is about the Processes running in the background. In the '98
Close Program box is showed what was running at any given time. While XP
breaks it up into 'applications' and 'processes, and 'performance' and
'networking' and 'users' most of which, again, means nothing to me at the
moment. But I did note that under Processes it shows a huge amount of
applicatons running in the background of the computer. Do I need them all?
What ones can be removed from the list to free up my RAM? I am supposed to
have 256 RAM but the info shows that I only really have 224 and the PF usage
in the Performance showes 174 MB usage at a CPU running between 0% and 7% as
I am typing this.
Last, In the trey, I was originally told that the more I have in there, the
more resources are being used. I tried to remove certain messenger and other
programs from loading into the trey at start-up but XP (unlike '98) advised
against the changes. How can I get past that without causing problems with
how the system is running?
Sorry for the long winded questions but this is all new to me and I am at a
loss to work with this OS.
Silk
ran WINDOWS '98 and knew where to find out what system resources were
available by clicking the My Computer Icon on desktop. Now, with XP, that
info isn't in that place. I did figure out that it was in what used to be the
'close program' box accessed with the CNTL/ALT/DEL combo. But under
performance there it gives me a CPU animated graph showing percentage being
used as opposed to what is remaining. It also shows the page file usage and
below that it gives 4 areas of info: TOTALS: handles, threads, and processes,
then next to that is the Physical Memory area, and finally the Kernal memory
and Commit Charge areas. None of this means anything to me unfortunately.
Where can I find out what they mean?
Second question is about the Processes running in the background. In the '98
Close Program box is showed what was running at any given time. While XP
breaks it up into 'applications' and 'processes, and 'performance' and
'networking' and 'users' most of which, again, means nothing to me at the
moment. But I did note that under Processes it shows a huge amount of
applicatons running in the background of the computer. Do I need them all?
What ones can be removed from the list to free up my RAM? I am supposed to
have 256 RAM but the info shows that I only really have 224 and the PF usage
in the Performance showes 174 MB usage at a CPU running between 0% and 7% as
I am typing this.
Last, In the trey, I was originally told that the more I have in there, the
more resources are being used. I tried to remove certain messenger and other
programs from loading into the trey at start-up but XP (unlike '98) advised
against the changes. How can I get past that without causing problems with
how the system is running?
Sorry for the long winded questions but this is all new to me and I am at a
loss to work with this OS.
Silk