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GrantDawg
04-15-2003, 01:30 PM
What processes absolutely needs to stay up in XP? I remember on win98 that you had to have systray and explorer. What about with XP?
Franklinnoble
04-15-2003, 01:36 PM
Just start killing them until your PC crashes... nothing like process of elimination... or elimination of processes... whatever.
GrantDawg
04-15-2003, 01:40 PM
Well, you could narrow it down a little. Which ones are absolutely nessecary?
astralhaze
04-15-2003, 01:44 PM
That's one of the beauty parts of XP. NONE of the startup group items are essential. The Windows neccessary files don't show up in the startup list.
GrantDawg
04-15-2003, 01:45 PM
Originally posted by astralhaze
That's one of the beauty parts of XP. NONE of the startup group items are essential. The Windows neccessary files don't show up in the startup list.

Cool. So I can shut them all down?
Draft Dodger
04-15-2003, 01:45 PM
you'll have to do a bit of reading, but Blackviper (http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm) has some good information on this subject.
Franklinnoble
04-15-2003, 01:46 PM
Well, frfoot4.exe is probably non-essential...

;-)
Franklinnoble
04-15-2003, 01:48 PM
My best guess is that explorer.exe is probably the only critical process...

You also might want to go into your computer manager and have a look at the services that are set to start automatically... some of them can be safely disabled.
astralhaze
04-15-2003, 01:56 PM
Originally posted by GrantDawg
Cool. So I can shut them all down?

Yes, you can.
Daimyo
04-15-2003, 02:02 PM
I think you guys may be talking about two different things. As far as I can tell Astralhaze is talking about taking things out of the startup group on your start menu > programs. I think GrantDawg is talking about hitting ctrl-alt-del and shutting down running processes.
astralhaze
04-15-2003, 02:17 PM
Ah, you are correct. With processes, then explorer.exe needs to stay. Nothing else. I feel like a dingleberry now.
Aylmar
04-15-2003, 02:18 PM
Actually, you can kill explorer.exe without hurting anything. The "kernel" will just respawn the proc.
Draft Dodger
04-15-2003, 02:20 PM
Originally posted by astralhaze
Ah, you are correct. With processes, then explorer.exe needs to stay. Nothing else. I feel like a dingleberry now.

more like an intern
astralhaze
04-15-2003, 02:26 PM
Originally posted by Draft Dodger
more like an intern

Don't make me get all mean and whatnot.
detroit_fan
04-16-2003, 03:45 PM
The more important question is what are you trying to fix? Is your computer running slow or low on memory? You might want to go to the start button and click on the run button and then type "msconfig". This will bring up a console that will alow you to kill most non-essential services.