Over run with processes... HELP

I have an Acer Aspire 3050. Haven't upgraded the RAM to 1GB yet so I'm trying everything I can to make it run faster. I opened my task manager and looked at my processes to find I was running 69 processes!!! I went into msConfig just like anyone would tell me and I shut down everything that was safe to do so (Kept all Mcafee).

I still have 49 processes running though. Even with none of my personal messenger or music players running. How do I get rid of them? I don't even know what half of them are. Do I really need that many McAfee processes running? I only have firewall and virus protection, yet I think there are 7 McAfee processes.

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.

PS. My AIM6 and iTunes are using 15k and 19k respectively, is that normal or is something wrong?

 

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks6.htm

Good Luck!



Yes, that seems about right.

 

right now I have 45 processes, is that on the high end?

 

that's a good site, too bad I'm not sure what to do in sevices.mcs.

 

I currently have 29 processes running, 6 of which are for my Logitech G15's features, 1 is Firefox, 1 is Alcohol 120%'s Virtual Drive, and 3 are AVG. That, of course, is very low - and being on a desktop, lower than it would be for a laptop, as I don't have all the IEST/PowerNow!, wireless and touchpad processes running. I seem to recall ~46 being the norm for my Inspiron 9300 with the G15 software installed and running. if you have an Intel or ATi GPU, it'll be a couple higher because they run more stuff in the background, although at least on the ATi cards you can disable atievxx.exe or whatever it is without problems.

 

Hovering around 50 processes is normal

 

I've got 62 processes give or take.

 

Yea I got 62 processes running on my laptop.

On my desktop, I've got 41 processes running.

 

I figure when I actually get around to reformating my HD, that the processes number will go down. Perhaps this larger number is partially the cause of my system being somewhat slower than usuall. I guess I'll know soon enough.

 

I got tons of demanding processes, but find 1gb to be a good amount of ram to run them, nowadays things eat up more ram than normal, an upgrade would b nice for ur computer, i recommend disabling things u'll probably never use, like msn messenger for me and stuff like digital line detect as i am always on wifi. Maybe u should try safexp or tweakxp (both freeware)? It shows u stuff u can disable that windows doesn't with a brief description of what it does.

 

tried tweakxp, but got confused.

 

I understand completely. I put all of the video downloader extensions for FF on my notebook and can't figure any of them out. But somehow I manage to get the videos from YouTube downloaded, but not sure how I did it. But then again, I am a blonde!

 

Use Ook! extention for FF. It's the easiest IMO.
Just right click the small grey OoK! box (lower left side) and select where you want downloads to go. Default is the Desktop.
Just click on the Ook! box and it downloads via FF download manager.
VERY EASY ......give it a try.

To play vids from Youtube. Just Download a .FLV player or codec.

 

Actually I don't have that one, must have overlooked it. I have Unplug, Get Video, and Video Downloader. I'll give that one a try this weekend.