Hi guys! I don't know if there's a "manager program" into which you could paste those tiny "background" programs and then click ONE button so it would shut down every unnecessary progs at once.

I've noticed that when I exit/disable antivir. and other apps for faster performance they are still running in the bacgr. so I need a better management.

Regards
Atte

Message edited on: 09/14/2005 08:37

Why don't you just use the Task Manager? Its not as convenient, but it works. Ctrl click on the clock in the Task Bar. Then just scroll to the progs you don't want running and click End Task.

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Task Manager- under Processes. You can shut down processes, but if you do the wrong one, programs don't work until you reboot. Look at the processes, and see which are using the most resources.

Attached Link: http://www.processlibrary.com

You can find out which processes are essential by going to the following link. Just do a search for the one(s)in question.

thanks for that link, found a few more I can temporarily kill on a big render.

You might want to try this free program called "Starter" at http://codestuff.cjb.net/

It lets you select the processes you don't want to run a boot time. I have had good luck with it on my desktop with winXP. You might want to hold off on this. I went to the Codestuff site to download the latest version of "starter" ant it won't unzip unless I use "ExplorerPlus", which is not free.

Message edited on: 09/14/2005 21:15

Attached Link: http://www.bm-productions.tk/

SmartClose is an excellent free program. From the website: "SmartClose is a free program that will automate the process of closing all running programs. It can also save the state of the system to a system snapshot, so all the programs that have been closed can be also easily restarted later by SmartClose." Mahray

Attached Link: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

I've always found this utility to be quite handy for getting an idea of what's using CPU power. Sometimes it also shows stuff running that the CTRL-Alt-Del menu doesn't list. Might be worth getting a free download.

Many thanks for your suggestions; I'll try them all! :-) Regards Atte

Use the stuff that they mention and also try going to the start menu and hit run and type msconfig and hit return. When msconfig comes up go to the startup section and look at the entries. Some of them are easy, if you are not burning cds, you can stop the cd burner helper. If you have a logitech mouse, you may not care about hearing about the latest and greatest goodies, can disable the app that checks for new messages. After you disable the apps/services you don't want you can reboot or not. Have to reboot to take advantage of your startup with the extra stuff. If you need the service, can run msconfig and enable the item. Just be careful what services/processes you disable. Not sure, leave it alone. Turn off your screensaver too if you need better performance.