task manager questions

[jormm]

ok i did the steps you have all ready listed and i got more pics of everest and my task manager

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Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name KIDSCOMPUTER (kids)
User Name Owner

Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Celeron, 2000 MHz (20 x 100)
Motherboard Name Asus P4G533-LA
Motherboard Chipset Intel Brookdale-G i845GL
System Memory 256 MB (PC2100 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award Modular (08/27/02)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter Intel(R) 82845G/GL Graphics Controller (64 MB)
3D Accelerator Intel Extreme Graphics
Monitor HP Pavilion V70S [17" CRT] (THTFF52816)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Intel 82801DB ICH4 - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-1]

Storage:
IDE Controller Intel(R) 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 24CB
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive WDC WD600AB-22CBA1 (55 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive COMBI RW16x10/DVD
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 52085 MB (37787 MB free)
D: (FAT32) 5135 MB (1207 MB free)
Total Size 55.9 GB (38.1 GB free)

Input:
Keyboard HP PS2 Keyboard (2K - 3)
Mouse PS/2 Compatible Mouse

i also downloaded Freeram xp pro and its not making much difference but it is helping a lil

[_dangtx_]

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do u really need those running all the time? itll slow yee down

[jormm]

umm idk wut they are but i thank i need the aol stuff cuz i use aol to log on the net i have dial up

[jormm]

oh yeah i endtask on all of them cept waol lol i need that one but since it works much better i got another question is that the most we can do to terminate programes and free up ram and i had downloaded this trial version of regcure and it found 850 errors i was woundering if you know of ne freeware that will get rid of that for me other then ccleaner cuz ccleaner didnt find them all that regcure did.

[MarkHark]

There's also this little nice guide here.

And another one here.

[Mjölnir]

oh yeah i endtask on all of them cept waol lol i need that one but since it works much better i got another question is that the most we can do to terminate programes and free up ram and i had downloaded this trial version of regcure and it found 850 errors i was woundering if you know of ne freeware that will get rid of that for me other then ccleaner cuz ccleaner didnt find them all that regcure did.

I'd be very wary of using registry cleaners, especially if they goad you into buying a full version to do the job. Personally I'd recommend forgetting about Regcure and also FreeRAM. Windows XP is fairly good with memory management and other memory managers just interfere with that - and they use more RAM to do it. Kind of a contradiction in terms.

Maybe you can cut down on some of the AOL programs but it'd be worth finding out exactly what they do first. The HP software doesn't consume much memory either. You're going to see your biggest improvements by turning off the realtime (on the fly) defragmenting option for IOBit Defrag and probably also from gettting rid of FreeRAM. The defragger is constantly hitting your hard drive if you haven't already turned off the realtime defrag option.

There's also this little nice guide here.

And another one here.

Be very, very wary of turning off services. There are very few that actually give back resources and more often than not, whatever causes the services to run or use memory can be shut down without shutting down the service. Three classic examples of this are Indexing Service, Task Scheduler and Themes.

If you are going to mess around with Services, do it tentatively and refer to as many other guides as you can. I have also written a Services Guide (listed in my sig). I don't profess that it's perfect, but I did use at least ten other guides and my own research to come up with what has been listed.

[themortarman]

Moved to the MS Windows Forum.

[poof]

son honestly id advise u just buy some more ram, its cheap these days, cause u already dont kno wat ur doing in disabling all those stuff, plus there isnt any noticeable performance gains when u do that, the only thing that can improve performance on ur pc is be adjusting ur virtual memory, even to that u still would gain anything much but thats the best u can do, disabling those other stuff these guys talking about really makes no sense. jus buy some more ram or if that insnt possible increase ur virtual memory size on ur hard disk

[Mjölnir]

son honestly id advise u just buy some more ram, its cheap these days, cause u already dont kno wat ur doing in disabling all those stuff, plus there isnt any noticeable performance gains when u do that, the only thing that can improve performance on ur pc is be adjusting ur virtual memory, even to that u still would gain anything much but thats the best u can do, disabling those other stuff these guys talking about really makes no sense. jus buy some more ram or if that insnt possible increase ur virtual memory size on ur hard disk

I'd agree that buying more RAM is the best solution, but if he can't afford it, then with only 256MB RAM, minimising the RAM usage will have a positive effect on the system. Increasing the paging file size is a useful suggestion, but as you already seem to be aware, RAM is much faster than a hard drive.

[richardd43]

http://www.sysinfo.org/startupinfo.html

The above link has a downloadable list which is pretty informative about your startups and whether they are needed or not.

[MarkHark]

Nice link, will keep an eye on it