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by scheduleplus

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At last count there were 36 processes running on my older (2003)laptop running XPpro. I know I've got to upgrade and have gotten a new toshiba Vista home premium ; however, this older computer, along with 2 others, has been a workhorse and is still useful for field project work. It seems to me there are several processes running that maybe don't need to be, and may be slowing down the computer. We're talking 4 minutes or longer boot time. Is there any way to know what should be running and what shouldn't be? Thanks in advance for your help.

Respectfully,

Ronnie
Field Operations Manager
IPS, Inc.

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by artillary2001

Hiya.....

To check the processe's that are running u could use that task manager which u probably though of lol... Though another better tool is using something called process explorer which u can get from here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx it's a brill tool, though you also might wanna also check to see if anyone is connected to ur pc " i mean trojan wise" etc... use a tool called tcpview from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897437.aspx it will provide u with a listing of all the open ports on ur machine and what programs talking to what port lol... hope this helps.. P.S u could also try the other gents comment about using msconfig..

Cya ; )

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