I have a Gateway 3310 with Windows XP home with 512 megs of RAM. It's still running a bit sluggish. And when I run certain programs that ran okay in my old computer that had a lot less RAM here the program occassionaly freezes, the computer was running at 100%, and I have to reboot as a result. So I rebooted just now and looked at all of the processes that were running and this is what I found.
Now I know for a fact that I do not need all of these processes running when I start up the computer. So which of these processes can I safely disable?
go to start/run,type in msconfig ,and startup and remove the one you don't need from there ,not the task manger ..
good site to help ,in the last paragraph is a link to a startup site ,just search the .exe of a program from msconfig to see if its safe to disable . http://www.netsquirrel.com/msconfig/msconfig_xp.html
Last edited by caperjack; Jun 7th, 2008 at 12:50 pm.
You'll likely only be able to turn off 5 or 6 processes and that will save you some ram but not as much as turning off programs that startup each time you boot.
I suggest using msconfig from Start Run and then going through your startup programs. Some of them can be quite large and eat lots of RAM.
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