which of these can i delete under processes>task manager

[Kevin1211]

just wondering if i can cut down on the processes

Link

 

[mongoloido]

I think a freshly installed XP has 20ish processes that run. Looks like you have Firefox, iTuneshelper, iPodService, soundman, filezilla, and realsched. Messing with any of the others seems like bad mojo to me.

ipodservice: if you have an ipod, keep it just the way it is. if you just have itunes, then it should be cool to disable it from startup
ituneshelper: it will start itself anytime you start itunes, so it should be cool to disable from startup too.
soundman: it's for your realtek sound. it let's you change the way the ports on your onboard sound function. If you don't need to change how they work, you can disable it.
filezilla: your ftp program. do with it as you will.
realsched: guessing you have real one or something on your computer. i'm not a fan of it, but it's no big deal. i uninstalled mine and installed media player classic. It runs the real player stuff without having a running process, bugging you for updates, etc...


Hope that helps. I'm not smart enough to mess with any of the other processes. Bad things can happen if you mess with the wrong ones. Those should be pretty safe to disable though.

 

[Calin]

I vote for realsched, itunes and ipod something. What is wdfmgr.exe?
Also, you are running several services, you might terminate some of them with no ill effects (Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services)

 

[mongoloido]

Originally posted by: Calin
...What is wdfmgr.exe?...

Microsoft?s User Mode Driver Manager service. At the time of writing this service gets installed on Windows XP when you either install Windows Media Player 10, or when you upgrade to Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. Introduced in September 2004. This service is part of the new device driver strategy from Microsoft for Windows 2000/XP/2003 and future versions of Windows : this strategy, the Windows Driver Foundation (WDF), aims to make it significantly simpler to write drivers for tomorrow?s Windows environments which hopefully will lead to higher quality and more reliable drivers; it also aims to ensure that, in future, buggy or badly written drivers will not have the detrimental or catastrophic effects that they have nowadays (freezes, instability, Windows not booting up, illegal operations, etc..); finally, the new strategy also aims to ensure that many more drivers will be installable without the PC needing to be logged in as ?Administrator? or with ?Administrator? privileges. Starting with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Media Player 10, Microsoft is adding the WDF framework to Windows 2000/XP/2003 to enable peripheral manufacturers to start producing WDF drivers. For technical users : this particular service, WDFMGR, implements the user-mode driver framework of the new WDF driver strategy. This framework enables developers to create drivers for network connected devices, and some USB devices, where the drivers run in user mode rather than kernel mode but still behave as standard Plug-and-Play drivers.

apparently, it's something that doesn't really get used, but who knows. with it only using 1500k of memory, i'm not willing to find out if it's important or not.


BTW: Here's a good link for the running processes:

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm

it's for some company that wants to sell you something, but the list is pretty comprehensive and informative.




Dunno if this is how you disable your services, but it's been reccomended to use services.msc instead of msconfig


um....lemme see where i read that.... here!

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

That guy has some good guides for tweaking your OS to run a little leaner and meaner. Haven't gotten to try it out yet, so please don't shoot the messenger (BE CAREFULL WITH ALL TWEAKS).

http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/OSguides.htm

 

[GfW]

The blackviper guides are very good ... have used them for a few years and have never had any problems from doing what they recommend. You even have different versions of tweaks depending what you want to do.

 

[RelaxTheMind]

and you just did half the job for a would be hacker by giving them your logon name. Or did i just point it out?

 

[Kevin1211]

Originally posted by: RelaxTheMind
and you just did half the job for a would be hacker by giving them your logon name. Or did i just point it out?

good point.. heh

and yeah thanks for everyone's input.... i did the guide at blackviper awhile ago that disabled alot of programs....