Salute Everyone

I am not clear on the difference / meanings of the two. When I have asked I
was given different answers. I thought that the "Applications" tab showed the
CURRENT running programs only. If that is so, then what is the "Processes"
tab showing?

How can a program be using (cp usage) unless it's running? I'm trying to
understand "programs running in the background", learn what is needed and not
needed so I can allow only what is necessary to run and keep resources freed
up. But as you can see, I'm confused on this. Would someone explain this to
me?

I Thank You in advance.

Bayou Barbie

Applications are programs that you use for whatever task you want, for
example, an email program or a music program or word processing program that
you start. Processes include those programs, plus other things that are
going on - things that make your system and other software and devices run
on your system. There are many, many processes - as you saw - when you went
into the task manager. There are several processes that need to be there
and are installed with your operating system. However, some of these
processes get installed when you install software on your system and load
when you startup your system. Some of it you need; some you don't. Some of
it you want; some you don't. There are experts and software that can tell
you more about these processes. I know some, but don't know enough to teach
you.

Hopefully this gives you a start.

"Bayou Barbie" <Bayou Barbie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Salute Everyone

I am not clear on the difference / meanings of the two. When I have asked I
was given different answers. I thought that the "Applications" tab showed
the
CURRENT running programs only. If that is so, then what is the "Processes"
tab showing?

How can a program be using (cp usage) unless it's running? I'm trying to
understand "programs running in the background", learn what is needed and
not
needed so I can allow only what is necessary to run and keep resources freed
up. But as you can see, I'm confused on this. Would someone explain this to
me?

I Thank You in advance.

Bayou Barbie

Thank you.
So the processes are programs running in the background. Wow, there are so
many I don't know how I'll figure out which ones that I need. Meaning, figure
out what, who they are. Once I know what they are I will know if I need them,
but that's the hard part. I know there are programs that do this so I guess I
will have to look into buying one of them because it's ridicules to have this
many processes going on.
Thanks again.


Bayou Barbie

Bayou Barbie wrote:
> out what, who they are. Once I know what they are I will know if I need them,
> but that's the hard part. I know there are programs that do this so I guess I
> will have to look into buying one of them because it's ridicules to have this
> many processes going on.
> Thanks again.
>

How many processes? When I got my Dell laptop, it had about 80
processes running (no applications, just programs running in the
background). After a system cleanup, my process count dropped to about
35. With anti-virus, spyware, etc. tools, I'd expect my processes to
jump to 45-50.