Processes and speed

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Gideon

I'm getting to know the taskmanager in XP PRO, and am
accustomed to Windows 98. In the old version, I was
accustomed to disabling excesses programs using "the 3
finger salute."

why is my new system running 26+ prcesses? isn't this
unnecessarily slowing down my comp?

does anyone know about XP reactor, and its download site?
I was told by a developer that his program would disable
unused processes...

thanks!
 
Services Guide for Windows XP
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| I'm getting to know the taskmanager in XP PRO, and am
| accustomed to Windows 98. In the old version, I was
| accustomed to disabling excesses programs using "the 3
| finger salute."
|
| why is my new system running 26+ prcesses? isn't this
| unnecessarily slowing down my comp?
|
| does anyone know about XP reactor, and its download site?
| I was told by a developer that his program would disable
| unused processes...
|
| thanks!
 
why is my new system running 26+ prcesses? isn't this
unnecessarily slowing down my comp?
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Processes that use 0% CPU time are not "running", and
aren't slowing anything down.

Processes do use some amount of RAM (which is swapped to
the pagefile if not needed), so if you have a low amount
of RAM, you may get a slight slowdown if the machine has
to swap things back and forth.

26 processes is not excessive in the least - you have to
remember that every single thing that loads has at least
one process. Anti-virus programs, firewalls, anything in
your notification area (by the clock), they're all
processes. Windows itself has about 8 processes or so
that are system-critical and must be running. Don't
forget that since you have Task Manager open, that will
show as a process also.
does anyone know about XP reactor, and its download
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site?

No idea.
I was told by a developer that his program would disable
unused processes...
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Just remember to document what's running and what things
disable so that if you actually are using something that
gets disabled, you can turn it back on...
 
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