Hi! Can the number of startup items be reduced?

When I go to look at my resources it seem all my juice is being sucked up by so many processes running. Is there a way to change these? I have plenty of memory/HD space and can't seem to figure out why all of my power is being sucked up... Anyone??

Again, I hope that makes sense. I sometimes get a CPU usage of 100% and that doesn't seem right to me. It's slowing things down. If there are certain apps that SHOULD run when I startup then I would like just those. I only have a minimum in my Startup file so I'm confused (once again!)

Thanks again, you guys rock!!

 

This thread deals with the ... erm ... unsucking of juices.

 

Hey Brett,


I installed the Startup Cop but my Task Manager says I have 35 processes running and the Startup Cop doesn't detect all of those, so those must be necessary items? My CPU usage is fluctuation between 7-100% is that normal? Just wondering!!

Thanks!!

 

Run msconfig from the run command and uncheck the unwanted items in it.

 

KC - CPU useage will look different depending on where you are looking. In task manager if you look at the running processes, you will see System Idle take lots of resources. But it really isn't. Just showing what is available. If you look at the performance tab, you may see spikes but the general CPU useage shouldn't stay very high. If it's constantly above 50%, you may have a problem of some sort.

But you were correct that 2K will run more "stuff" than you will see with 95/98/ME. Partly because it just runs more stuff and partly because you can't see some of the running processes with those other systems.

Startup Cop / msconfig / etc. should not see and allow you to control everything that is running. If necessary, you can control services another way but for the most part, the NT services aren't using up much resource and stopping them won't free up much either.