[danishmaggot]

My fiances computer is running way to slow and it is running up to 88 processes at a time! So I went into msconfig and stopped everything that I knew she didn't need for the start up, but it still has way to many processes running. So I made a log with process explorer hoping someone in here could give me a little guidence to what needs to be turned off.

Here is the log:

Process PID CPU Description Company Name
System Idle Process 0 95.39
Interrupts n/a 2.31 Hardware Interrupts
DPCs n/a 0.77 Deferred Procedure Calls
System 4
smss.exe 408
csrss.exe 904
wininit.exe 964
services.exe 1016
svchost.exe 1240 0.77
igfxext.exe 2412
igfxsrvc.exe 2564
igfxext.exe 3524
igfxsrvc.exe 3556
unsecapp.exe 4060 Sink to receive asynchronous callbacks for WMI client application Microsoft Corporation
WmiPrvSE.exe 1804
igfxsrvc.exe 2332 igfxsrvc Module Intel Corporation
ehmsas.exe 3872 Media Center Media Status Aggregator Service Microsoft Corporation
mobsync.exe 1560 Microsoft Sync Center Microsoft Corporation
FlashUtil9d.exe 2624 Adobe Flash Player Helper 9.0 r47 Adobe Systems, Inc.
svchost.exe 1300
svchost.exe 1332
svchost.exe 1416
audiodg.exe 1536
svchost.exe 1440
WUDFHost.exe 2164
dwm.exe 2908 0.77 Desktop Window Manager Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1452
taskeng.exe 1844
taskeng.exe 2828
VAIOUpdt.exe 3204
taskeng.exe 2956 Task Scheduler Engine Microsoft Corporation
SLsvc.exe 1588
svchost.exe 1656
svchost.exe 1856
aswUpdSv.exe 2008
ashServ.exe 2040
spoolsv.exe 692
svchost.exe 672
AppleMobileDeviceService.exe 808
AluSchedulerSvc.exe 440
mDNSResponder.exe 916
svchost.exe 936
PIFSvc.exe 392
NSUService.exe 1340
svchost.exe 1836
QBCFMonitorService.exe 1876
svchost.exe 476
VESMgr.exe 1628
VESMgrSub.exe 2540
SPMgr.exe 3400
VCSW.exe 1708
svchost.exe 860
SearchIndexer.exe 2064
XAudio.exe 2124
VzCdbSvc.exe 2148
VzFw.exe 2372
ashMaiSv.exe 2836
ashWebSv.exe 3024
FNPLicensingService.exe 3116
lsass.exe 1028
lsm.exe 1036
csrss.exe 984
winlogon.exe 1092
explorer.exe 2964 Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation
MSASCui.exe 3604 Windows Defender User Interface Microsoft Corporation
hkcmd.exe 3728 hkcmd Module Intel Corporation
igfxpers.exe 3752 persistence Module Intel Corporation
Apoint.exe 3760 Alps Pointing-device Driver Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
ApMsgFwd.exe 1980
ISBMgr.exe 3776 Sony Corporation
jusched.exe 3784 Java(TM) Platform SE binary Sun Microsystems, Inc.
AutoLaunchWLASU.exe 3800 AutoLaunchWLASU Sony Electronics, Inc.
acrotray.exe 3808 AcroTray Adobe Systems Inc.
PIFSvc.exe 2252 LiveUpdate Notice Service Symantec Corporation
ashDisp.exe 2380 avast! service GUI component ALWIL Software
sidebar.exe 1972 Windows Sidebar Microsoft Corporation
LANUtil.exe 2364 VAIO Smart Network Sony Corporation
Skype.exe 484 Skype. The whole world can talk for free. Skype Technologies S.A.
GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe 3052 GoogleToolbarNotifier Google Inc.
ehtray.exe 3092 Media Center Tray Applet Microsoft Corporation
LinksysAgent.exe 2232 Linksys EasyLink Advisor Linksys, a Division of Cisco Systems, Inc.
procexp.exe 4768 Sysinternals Process Explorer Sysinternals
ApntEx.exe 2952 Alps Pointing-device Driver for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
ieuser.exe 5624 Internet Explorer Microsoft Corporation
taskmgr.exe 5756

[fairnooks]

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

[danishmaggot]

Originally Posted by fairnooks

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

Thank you.

I set everything according to the "safe" setting on that site, but I still have way to many things running in the background.

Can anyone look at the list I put up and tell me what I don't need to have on? Thank you.

[jonmcc33]

Upgrade her RAM?

[danishmaggot]

Originally Posted by jonmcc33

Upgrade her RAM?

Upgrading her ram shouldn't really be necesary as she has 1 GB and it is a lab top, should it? All the processes that are running is currently taking up 70 % of the physical memory!

[SonoInc]

Most companies reccomend atleast 2 gigs with vista, that's waht I'm running and it runs 82 processes just fine, upgrading might not be a bad idea.

I'm also using a laptop. My Physical memory floats from 40-60% with IE, word/excel/WMP, etc. and the normal 80 processes.

If you want to terminate some of those processes, you can conrol+alt+delete and click on proecesses tab, and read the description that if offers to decide whether or not to terminate, or check this site:

http://www.liutilities.com/products/...rocesslibrary/

Or even google the process to see waht it says.

[danishmaggot]

ok, thanks a lot.

[darveaux]

Vista gobbles ram because of the many features of the Operating System. Plus, it's 2008....1GB was a lot of ram like 5 years ago...now it's nothing.