The amazing load of crap people have on their pc

[Tsunami]

33

 

[Tassadar]

Aww here I just formatted. It was about 37 before then. Right now it's stands at 28.

 

[[DC]_MAKER]

i ahd 70 once lol still rna fine on my kickass pc. Most was IE and stuff. Was during research than when i had that much.

 

[SSFT]

Ill never have that many proccesses I think. I have win98se so mine looks different.

Mozilla Firefox (have it on to view this thread)
Explorer (good ol' windows)
Zlclient (Im a bit paranoid so..... firewall)
Ccapp (Norton I believe)
Rundll32 (This is important to windows I think)
Systray (Another windows thing I believe)
Ahqtb (whatever the heck this is, anyone know?)


so yeah, 7 processes, and I can shut them down till I have 2 processes.

 

[owa]

37, most of it spyware and ad-ware, but I can't run adaware or spybot destroy anything else cause my pc will crash... oh well

 

[solidus]

running spybot in safe mode generally does the trick.

oh, and 31.

 

[X-iT_W0uN|)]

28 on mine

 

[SSFT]

Does anyone know what Ahqtb is?

***edit***

aah ok its a soundblaster thing

 

[Iyce Da Kidd]

is it .dll or .exe?

just look it up on google

 

[Judge]

Ill never have that many proccesses I think. I have win98se so mine looks different.

Mozilla Firefox (have it on to view this thread)
Explorer (good ol' windows)
Zlclient (Im a bit paranoid so..... firewall)
Ccapp (Norton I believe)
Rundll32 (This is important to windows I think)
Systray (Another windows thing I believe)
Ahqtb (whatever the heck this is, anyone know?)


so yeah, 7 processes, and I can shut them down till I have 2 processes.

actually that's not true, as you can see my screenshot has no other program running. only the necesairy windows ones. svchost.exe etc, windows 98se just doesn't show everything.

 

[SSFT]

oh thats bad for me then, because it might not show viruses running in the background...

 

[ZariusZer0]

hmm... on windows 98se, minus internet explorer, trillian, and winamp, that leaves me with...
Soundman
Explorer
Rundll32
Systray

 

[DJ-Ready]

way too much crap running in the background on my pc >_>

 

[Kurt`]

You people need serious help.

Edit:

That's what it looks like when I boot, after that I start up AIM and IRC.

 

[Krazy-Killa]

32 Processes. This is with Internet Explorer, mIRC, Trillian, and Winamp running.
Kurt: How did you manage to get 2 svchost.exes to run? For me, even with a fresh install of XP I get around 4-5.

 

[Atlantis]

I only have 1 going...

I barely have anything going, I play alot of games so I try and keep as little as possible running to increase performance

 

[Judge]

You people need serious help.

Edit:

That's what it looks like when I boot, after that I start up AIM and IRC.

you beat me fair and square.. 1 process less

how did you get only 2 svchost.exe's? I got like 4 :O and they are relevant for the pc, atleast for me they are.

 

[bapplebo]

Yeah, you can take some svchosts away but not all of them. It'll seriously stuff the sound up. I've done it on my old pc. It took away 10,000 commit charge, but stuffed things up.
OMG! I have no svchosts! But 40 processes? When there's 13 on screen? Something's not right....
And don't ask what I'm listening to on WMP.

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[Kurt`]

Start->Run->"msconfig"->Services tab

You can uncheck most of those, since alot of them are just stupid bs that Microsoft defaults to running on a fresh install of XP. A few of them are required for your DSL/Cable or dialup internet connection to work.

Changes take place when you reboot.

If you mess something up, and things aren't working correctly, go back into that Services menu and click Select All and reboot again.

@Metalburn: How about checking off Show Processes From All Users (including your account)?

 

[Bolteh2]

the pixelated stuff is just my name.. to prevent hatemail from ever arriving at the "Bolt" adress