Task Manager Processes

[Papa Jack]

I recently had my PC "cleaned up" to increase response time. As a result, it
runs faster but when attempting to open selective internet sites (Mapquest,
EBay); the systems appears to start the process and then gets hung up. When I
look at Task manager, the same 35 processes are open.

Is there anyway I can identify which process(es) are needed to complete the
opening of the sites.

Thanks
Jack

 

[Daave]

I recently had my PC "cleaned up" to increase response time. As a
result, it
runs faster but when attempting to open selective internet sites
(Mapquest,
EBay); the systems appears to start the process and then gets hung up.
When I
look at Task manager, the same 35 processes are open.

Is there anyway I can identify which process(es) are needed to
complete the
opening of the sites.

Who cleaned up your PC? What exactly did this person do? Have you tried
using msconfig?

 

[Alec S.]

I recently had my PC "cleaned up" to increase response time. As a result, it
runs faster but when attempting to open selective internet sites (Mapquest,
EBay); the systems appears to start the process and then gets hung up. When I
look at Task manager, the same 35 processes are open.

Is there anyway I can identify which process(es) are needed to complete the
opening of the sites.

Check the CPU usage in Task Manager. Are any processes using a lot?

Check your HOSTS file. I suspect that along with cleaning up, your system has
been hardened against some malicious websites, which may include some
not-so-malicious sites like eBay and Mapquest. If you find any eBay entries in
HOSTS, you can delete them (make sure its actually ebay URLs and not something
like static-ebay.com or images.ebay.foo.com)