RUNNING PRORAMS

[Guest]

mine says its running 35 programs, isn't to much? if so how many, which are supposed to be, and how stop them????

 

[Guest]

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mine says its running 35 programs, isn't to much? if so

how many, which are supposed to be, and how stop them????

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35 is not that bad how many should their be depends

soley on you. How hany icons are by your clock? do you
need all of them to run? Your anti-virus and firewall can
use 7 or 8 alone.
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

 

[Guest]

"35 programs running is not that bad" ARE YOU INSANE? Unless you are actually using a program to do work or run something then you should have only have no programs running. For instance when surfing I have IE and Norton Anti-virus running. Having any more running wastes CPU resources and leaves you open for conflicts and security issues. Lets say you are surfing and have a program running in the background that decides to connect to the internet and get updates. These updates are extensive and someone knows how to compromise your OS through that open port you won't know what hit you. Now if you are talking processes that's entirely different. My recomendation. Never set a program for automatic updating, do it manually and to ensure the fastest operation of your system never run more than two or three programs at a time. 35 is entirely to many and each needing it's cycle in the CPU most certainly slows you down a great deal. Good luck.

 

[Ken Blake]

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"35 programs running is not that bad" ARE YOU INSANE? Unless you
are actually using a program to do work or run something then you
should have only have no programs running. For instance when surfing
I have IE and Norton Anti-virus running. Having any more running
wastes CPU resources

That depends entirely on what the programs are. Many open
programs sit idle and use no resources at all, CPU or other,
unless you are actively using them. If they are not being used,
they will typically get moved to the page file, so they don't
even use RAM.

and leaves you open for conflicts and security
issues.

Yes, there is a possibility for a conflict ifyou ever run more
than one thing at a time, but that's not a good reason for not
doing so. The ability to run multiple things at once is a major
feature of WIndows. No t doing so is foolish.Conflicts are fairly
rare. *If* you have a conflict, only *then* do you need to find
out where it is, and do something about it.

What security issues?

35 is entirely to many

No number is too many. Some can be problematic; others aren't.The
only meaningful question is *which* they are.

and each needing it's
cycle in the CPU most certainly slows you down a great deal.

Again, that's wrong. Many programs sit idly in the background
waiting for you to do something with them; they use no CPU cycles
while idle, and don't slow you down at all. Again, the issue is
*which*, not how many.