Processes

[Monkey muppet]

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Also how do I find out what these processes are doing to my system, some I reconise, some I don't.

Please help me identify

this is whats running now (only program running on desktop is firefox)

edit: I have a couple of background programs (MSM messenger, zone alarm)

acrotray
alg
csrss
DATALA~1
dragdiag
ehmsas
ehsched
ehtray
explorer
firefox
isafe
iTouch
jusched
lkxmtw
lsass
mmtask
msmsgs
nvsvc32
qttask
realsched
resetservice
SERVIC~1
services
smss
spoolsv
srvany
svchost (x5)
System Idle Process
taskmgr
tbctray
TRAYAP~1
vsmon
wdfmgr
winampa
winlogon
zlclient

Which ones can I permantly kill? - and how? (I remember somewhere about not using MSCONFIG from the run command - any reason for this?)

 

[Monkey muppet]

OS is Windows XP MCE2004, version 5.1.2600.2180

 

[HKSturboKID]

Looks like you have some apps open. Reboot your pc, after you login, wait a few minutes and do not open any apps and then post your processes that is running and we'll see.

 

[Monkey muppet]

Restarted my PC, stayed disconnect ran the latest Ad-ware reference file, processed post below, it's the same minus firefox I think

acrotray
alg
csrss
DATALA~1
dragdiag
ehmsas
ehsched
ehtray
explorer
isafe
iTouch
jusched
lkxmtw
lsass
mmtask
msmsgs
nvsvc32
qttask
realsched
resetservice
SERVIC~1
services
smss
spoolsv
srvany
svchost (x5)
System Idle Process
taskmgr
tbctray
TRAYAP~1
vsmon
wdfmgr
winampa
winlogon
zlclient

 

[Schadenfroh]

see my Guide to Free Performance

 

[Submit]

look around on this guys website http://www.blackviper.com/WIN2K/win2kservice411.htm

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Submit
look around on this guys website http://www.blackviper.com/WIN2K/win2kservice411.htm

Be careful with that site. It seemed a bit weak the last time I read through it...

 

[KoolDrew]

What do you mean by weak?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
What do you mean by weak?

I don't think the explanations are all that great, and they don't seem to go into ramifications of disabling certain services. I think I remember some information being wrong or incomplete, but I haven't paid much attention to the site recently.

I just don't think the tweaking thing is really worth it. The "speed ups" are barely measurable, and rarely worth it.

 

[Nothinman]

What do you mean by weak?

Well there's the fact that if a process isn't doing anything, the memory it's taking up will be freed eventually to be used for other things so there's virtually no gain in disabling most services.

 

[Monkey muppet]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
see my Guide to Free Performance

wow - a lot of info there - thanks!!

It made me think a bit more about securing my system

Zone alarm Security suite and Ad-ware just isn't enough!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Monkey muppet]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
What do you mean by weak?

I don't think the explanations are all that great, and they don't seem to go into ramifications of disabling certain services. I think I remember some information being wrong or incomplete, but I haven't paid much attention to the site recently.

I just don't think the tweaking thing is really worth it. The "speed ups" are barely measurable, and rarely worth it.

Well I sat at my comp the other day and waited almost 3mins for explorer to open 'cos I had only 31mb of available RAM free (512mb installed).

I want any "speed-ups" around

 

[Nothinman]

Well I sat at my comp the other day and waited almost 3mins for explorer to open 'cos I had only 31mb of available RAM free (512mb installed).

Stopping services won't fix that, you have other issues.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Monkey muppet

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
What do you mean by weak?

I don't think the explanations are all that great, and they don't seem to go into ramifications of disabling certain services. I think I remember some information being wrong or incomplete, but I haven't paid much attention to the site recently.

I just don't think the tweaking thing is really worth it. The "speed ups" are barely measurable, and rarely worth it.

Well I sat at my comp the other day and waited almost 3mins for explorer to open 'cos I had only 31mb of available RAM free (512mb installed).

I want any "speed-ups" around

Nothinman hit it on the head, you have issues. I have 512MB in my 2k3 box, 2 distributed computing clients, bittorrent, firefox, ie, nero, AVG, and dvd shrink usually open. I have plenty of free ram.

 

[ActuaryTm]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Stopping services won't fix that, you have other issues.

Agreed.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

Me thinks it has something to do with spyware/malware

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: htmlmasterdave
Me thinks it has something to do with spyware/malware

Schadenfroh also has a guide on that :thumbsup:

 

[bobalong]

I'm going to have to start somewhere - I'm just a little worried that the free-warzed programs for scanning my system would couse more harm than good

 

[Infohawk]

Check out process explorer from sysinternals which is the best process viewer I've ever seen. You can add "private bytes" to the columns so that each process will show you how much room it's taking up. So it shows me how much mem and cpu each one is taking plus gives boat loads of other information.