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    60+ Processes AFTER reformat?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by NissanSupraGTR, May 27, 2006.

  1. NissanSupraGTR

    NissanSupraGTR Notebook Evangelist

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    This really shocked me. The computer runs pretty darn fast, but I just happened to catch a glimpse while trying to end firefox. Wtf is goin on? Is this normal?
     
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  2. Tim

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    What did you have running at the time? Did you have any AIM programs running? How about Anti-virus and Anti-Spyware? Those could cause that.
    Tim
     
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    Jason Overclocker NBR Reviewer

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    After a fresh reformat you s hould be at around 30 processes. Perhaps when you reformated you somehow installed some of dells junk-ware too? What kind of programs are running the the background?
     
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    It sounds like you installed the trashwares too.
     
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  5. NissanSupraGTR

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    Well, this is note exactly after I reinstalled xp; it's after I reinstalled and downloaded all my basic programs. (Antivirus, firewall, peerguardian, etc). I looked up some of the processes and a lot of them have to do with the dell drivers ( bluetooth, intel pro, quickset). Is anyone else running this many after installing all this stuff?
     
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    fwiw....

    After a Windows MCE SP2 reinstall w/o any drivers, etc had 25 processes

    After installing Dell drivers/utilities for my hardware configuration [from Dell download/CD] had 39 processes.

    So that kind of gives you ROM on the 'basic' number of processes. Given the applications you've added on top of that, it seems about right.

    Mark
     
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    I noticed after I installed PhotoShop, it added a "Adobe Gamma Loader.exe" file in the startup menu, what is this? Shall I remove it or just leave it alone?
     
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    Same here, i reformatted last night, and i didn't install anything yet

    I had about 41

    But thats with MCE installed, so who knows
     
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    Already did most of the stuff on that guide; checked out all my startup processes/services on google and none of them seem to be spyware/malware/junkware. I'm just used to the 30 or so processes on my old laptop...
     
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    That's not normal, you must have installed something else during re-installation, if you had followed SouthernGirl's guide and use Dell's WinXP MCE CD, your computer should be the same as everyone else's after a fresh installation of WinXP.

    Check how many processes you have right after you install WinXP (before installing any drivers), then check again after loading all the drivers (before installing any other software).
     
    bestco, May 27, 2006
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