Doward;1173996 said:
That's what I've been taught and followed. It's ridiculous when you have 3 or 4 gigs of RAM, yes...but even XP can eat a Gig like it's Pez...besides, in the land of 100Gig+ hard drives, what's 3gigs? *shrug*
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That's what I've been taught and followed. It's ridiculous when you have 3 or 4 gigs of RAM, yes...but even XP can eat a Gig like it's Pez...besides, in the land of 100Gig+ hard drives, what's 3gigs? *shrug*
Tanya;1174281 said:
Even 42 processes is asinine. I try and keep mine under 30, mid-20's at best, low 30's at worst. There's a bunch of crap that XP loads that you'll never use, and on top of that...HP has even more...lol. You should be able to cut your start-up processes almost in half, and your computer will seem like a brand new machine.
Process Explorer does that stuff too....MUCH more detailed and customizable than either...it'll even tell you the path of each file accessed for each process. Best part...it's freeware!
Spybot lets you do the same thing 
Tanya, open up 'Run' and type in 'msconfig' - Now go to Startup, and uncheck everything. Restart. Check the box that pops up on restart, and enjoy speediness
Tanya, open up 'Run' and type in 'msconfig' - Now go to Startup, and uncheck everything. Restart. Check the box that pops up on restart, and enjoy speediness
Some of that stuff she may actually use -- besides, there's generally about 10 or so more things she can get rid of through the services manager....I think I've got a website or two saved in my bookmarks.
I turned off a few things this am and got it down to 35 processes. I'm not interested in nuking everything my pc really does run just fine. It only sloths up when I have Photoshop and Illustrator running, which is why I want more RAM eventually.
Doward;1176299 said:I have yet to see a program that didn't load itself when you executed the main program.
Oh, for sure...I totally agree there. But, just for example, an A/V program you would want to load the monitor on startup, and in my instance, on my XP profile, I load my Creative Volume mixer/doohickey, my fan monitor for my motherboard, and my ESET and UnHackMe. But, I've turned a lot of shit off in the Services Manager, and I think I'm down to about 28 processes on startup.
Tanya;1176337 said:
I really think increasing your swapfile will help in that arena...may not be blistering, but try it...should help some. Just hard-set it to 3gigs and reboot.
Alway's locked mine at a set size so it's not dynamic and sucking CPU to resize itself.
I also dump it on the D drive as I have enough ram to not have to hit it too often.
I also dump it on the D drive as I have enough ram to not have to hit it too often.
Good point, forgot to mention that....
Tanya, make the first number the same size as the second number to lock it at a set size. Also, if you have a second internal hard drive (not partition), use that instead. It's a little faster to access two separate drives, than to double-tap the same drive, i.e., constantly writing to the swapfile AND accessing all your programs and data.
Tanya, make the first number the same size as the second number to lock it at a set size. Also, if you have a second internal hard drive (not partition), use that instead. It's a little faster to access two separate drives, than to double-tap the same drive, i.e., constantly writing to the swapfile AND accessing all your programs and data.