"Josh" <Josh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have 49 programs running in my windows task manager and I am not running
> any programs, I think I might have allot of unnecessary programs running
> that
> don't need to be running which is taking up a lot of my memory..
> In run there is a command I can put in to edit all my start up files, Does
> anyone know what the command is?
>
> Or what program I can use to get ride allot of program's that might be
> running with out my knowledge?
Are you talking about what's listed on the process tab? These are all
processes, some of which are important system processes that are necessary
for XP to Run. There will be quite a few processes running in XP. The
issue is not so much how many but do you want each of them to be running.
Here are some research sites to use to check out what's running so you can
make a decision about it.
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm http://castlecops.com/StartupList.html http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm
Besides these specific sites there is always
www.google.com which is an
excellent resource when first looking for information.
After you research what's running then you can disable particular startup
programs. First step should be to check in the options for the program you
don't want to start and see if there is a setting to tell it not to run at
startup. The next step is to remove any entries you don't want from the two
startup folders:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
For anything else uncheck their entries in the startup tab of msconfig:
Start | Run | Msconfig | Ok
Another option is to remove the reference to them from one of these keys in
the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\RunOnce
Make sure you have a backup of the registry using a program like ERUNT
before making any changes to the registry.
ERUNT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-on...runt/erunt.txt
Installing and Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm
This is assuming the system is not infected with malware. Cleaning up
malware requires other tools.