What system processes to end?? To speed up PC.

[psychy]

Can anyone help me to reduce the amount of processes in my Task Manager (Processes).

Tbh, most of the stuff on it, i dont recognise. I dont wanna stop something that i need.

I've gone into MSConfig and stopped a few things i dont want and now i've got 47 processes.



Can someone tell me what i need and what i should delete/stop. I presume i can do this via MSConfig?

Many thanks

[cvb27]

Here are a couple of links you could check out on processes- from google.
http://www.tweaksforgeeks.com/EssentialProc.html
http://www.rork.nl/index.pl?pid=14

Here's a startup list to decide what to keep during boot.
http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html.
Hope these help.

[explicitlyrics]

Just thought I would add that Process Explorer from sysinternals.com is free and very useful for this sort of thing. It shows far more information about each process, namely who or what started it and its processor usage. However, its properties features and google search integration is excellent aswell.

[Agent]

Generaly, i go into MSConfig and disable everything. Then as you notice things missing / not working, re-enable them.
Excusing a few critical things, you'll probably not notice any difference.

[mcmiller]

blackviper.com used to have a list of services which u could disable but seems to be dead now http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12 this link should help u tho it explains how to disable the services properly rather than by using msconfig

[herulach]

the black viper guide was complete dross tbh. looking at that list though, theres not a great deal that isnt doing something. and nothing is using up that much ram. A good defrag will probably be at least as effective.

[sarabob]

As per previous posters, you really are best off using process explorer here.

The USRSureConnect and RAMASST are obvious candidates for removal unless you *need* to monitor you adsl modem all the time and have problems burning cds. gbtray is part of roxio goback, so unless you're using it for backups I'd disable it (although TBQH I'd ditch roxio altogether for nero or something anyway).

Normally I'd list the processes by memory usage and start from the top, as I tend to find that the more free memory is hanging around the better windows performs. I'm guessing, but the other way of looking at this is that a larger footprint program is likely to spend more time starting up during the boot process, too.

You'll quickly bump into my personal bugbear with windows, which is that all those services get bundled into svchost processes, which means that you *have* to use process explorer to work out which one is misbehaving (I'm looking at you, Norton Internet Security). I'm sure there's a reason for it, but it's annoying nonetheless. Reducing the number of services you run will free up memory and reduce boot time: linky