>> What I would hope to find is a program that will recognize
>> the unwanted windblows background stuff and turn off anything
>> that will not cause the machine to crash.
I guess that would be the power switch... <grin>
Others have had good advice, but I would suggest going to Control
Panel/Administrative Tools/Component Services, and turning off all un-needed
services (on the "Services" branch). This is by far the safest route, since
the machine is sure to boot afterward. Naturally, if you turn off some
services (network, DHCP Client, etc) you might lose a function you need. But
that is easy to restore.
I strongly prefer Windows 2000 over XP. W2k is NT 5.0. XP is NT 5.1. It
seems to me that the .1 represents a lot of the crap I dislike, that steal
CPU cycles.
Ken Elliott
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of paddy
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:27 PM
To: Suncoast Linux User Group
Subject: [SLUG] Windblows background processes
Can anybody recommend any utilities that will shut down the unnecessary
programs that the developers of Windblows insist on running in the
background, i.e messenger, outlook, ad nasuem. I am only running this
horrible operating system because Photoshop CS2 runs on it and I cannot
afford aMAC at this time. I tried "End it All" but that was not of much
help because I had to figure which programs to close and the menu only gave
me the names of programs I need to run.
What I would hope to find is a program that will recognize the unwanted
windblows background stuff and turn off anything that will not cause the
machine to crash. I know that's asking for a lot because it does not take
much to crash Windblows.
My machine has an Anthlon XP 3200 "Barton" CPU, a Maxtor 250 gb HD, 2GB of
PC 3200 400 DDR, Windows XP, Service Pack 2 and a few other nice things.
I'm tired of Windblows running a bunch of crap in the background that are
not needed, and useing up a lot of memory.
TIA
Paddy
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