XP tasks

trackster · Post by **trackster** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:00 am

I have went into msconfig and have only my antivirus program and and like 2 or 3 other things starting up.

But when i go into the processes i have 43!! i just got this thing how do i get rid of most of them so my computer starts up faster?
sorry i am new to windows XP lol (was using 98 on a 500mhz)

Woody · Post by **Woody** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:03 am

If I have a task that I dont recognize I will just Google it. I can usually find out what it is and if its needed. Once I know what it is more Googling will tell me how to kill it if I want it dead.

You can always list the ones you cant figure out here and I bet someone can tell you what it is and how to kill it.

PS 43 tasks is not an unusually high number for XP, I just counted and I have about 47 tasks right now and only about four of them are open programs. Of the rest I probably could kill five or six since they are schedulers and/or helper programs but I dont worry about them since they only use a few kilobytes of memory.

trackster · Post by **trackster** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:17 am

oh that just sounded like i high number like i said there are only 4 thinks starting up in msconfig startup tab and it jsut looked like a huge number compared to windows 98

is there any way to make my computer boot up faster?

Post by **Phineus** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:32 pm

How much memory does it have? More memory usually means faster operations.

Woody · Post by **Woody** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:21 pm

trackster wrote:oh that just sounded like i high number like i said there are only 4 thinks starting up in msconfig startup tab and it jsut looked like a huge number compared to windows 98

is there any way to make my computer boot up faster?

A few things that can help off of the top of my head

Faster CPU
More memory
Faster hard drive
Defrag the hard drive
Less programs on startup
Set XP to hibernate instead of turn off.

My suggestion is dont worry about it. Do what I do, turn it on and go take a leak and get a mountain dew while its booting up.

Post by **Phineus** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 8:45 pm

> Do what I do

Yep. Start it up, walk away, then come back. A computer could boot in 30 seconds and it wouldn't be fast enough for me.

legwon · Post by **legwon** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:32 pm

Phineus wrote:A computer could boot in 30 seconds and it wouldn't be fast enough for me.

lol.. i know what u meen phin. same thing here.
mine boots up in about a min maybe min and 15, but im sittin here and going "hurry up u dam thing".. lol

processes running, im running XP Pro, got 39 processes running.

to make XP load faster besides what has been mention already check out this page.

hmmmm seemed to have lost it. but heres one that will also help.
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=235571

trackster · Post by **trackster** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:41 am

lol does hibernation take up power (this is on a laptop and i don't want to keep on draining my battery

Woody · Post by **Woody** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:00 am

trackster wrote:lol does hibernation take up power (this is on a laptop and i don't want to keep on draining my battery

Hibernation doesnt take any more power than a full shutdown, it writes the current "state" of the computer to a file on the hard drive. When you restart it loads from the file instead of doing a normal startup.

Here is a quick article on power management in XP, it focuses on laptops that gives more details.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin ... rch25.mspx