Task Manager -- items which can be safe to remove without it rebooting.

[vhelp]

Hello everyone

System Spec: Windows XP Home Edition w/SP2

I want to try and see how much resources I can regain by removing programs from the task manager
via ctrl+alt+del and then hi-lighting each item I want to [DEL] from the list. For instance, if I try
and remove one of the (there's two of them) NETWORK SERVICES (aka, svchost.exe) the machine
will kick into 15 second before reboot mode and it shuts down.

Ok. There are as many as 25 items in the list at first boot up. I know that some of these I can
safely remove (because they are in my system tray area) but the remaining ~21 items I'm not
sure of, though I've gotten away w/ removing some and leaving only 17 items. I dare go futher
unless I now for sure, hence the opening of this discussion.

If you need a list of the items in my task manager, I think I might be able to post those, but not
today because I've been in the middle of a major multi-tasking about 8 virtualdub's and avisynth scripts
and programming and so on and so forth that I can't right now. Tomorrow, I can, if need be.

Thanks,
-vhelp 4611

[Soopafresh]

Most of those are support for various services. You're going to have to go into Service Manager to disable the unneeded ones. BlackViper is the expert on which ones you can safely disable.

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

[Midzuki]

Well, over here, there are 35 processes running in the background, BUT
not all of them are shown in the TaskMgr window; however the truth is, ...
I had seen nothing yet

< COMMAND LINE >

[C:\BINARIES]
=>cmdow
Handle Lev Pid -Window status- Image Caption
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0x0800CC 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaDropShadowWindowClass
0x0600DE 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaDropShadowWindowClass
0x0600D4 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaDropShadowWindowClass
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0x0600E6 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaDropShadowWindowClass
0x0800FE 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaDropShadowWindowClass
0x0500EC 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaDropShadowWindowClass
0x0400E2 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaDropShadowWindowClass
0x0400E4 2 1948 Res Ina Ena Vis seamonke MozillaWindowClass
0x0400E8 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaDropShadowWindowClass
0x0400EA 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaDropShadowWindowClass
0x090112 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaDropShadowWindowClass
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0x03004E 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER tooltips_class32
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0x020052 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER Shell_TrayWnd
0x03003E 2 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER Iniciar
0x03003C 2 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER TrayNotifyWnd
0x030040 3 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER 20:50
0x030042 3 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER SysPager
0x030044 4 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER ┴rea de notificaþÒo
0x03004C 3 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER Button
0x010070 2 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER ReBarWindow32
0x010074 3 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER Aplicativos em execuþÒo
0x010078 4 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER Aplicativos em execuþÒo
0x0401CA 1 692 Max Act Ena Vis cmd 5-COMMAND LINE - cmdow
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0x0300AA 2 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER ToolbarWindow32
0x0300C8 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER ToolbarWindow32
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0x0600E0 3 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaWindowClass
0x0900BC 3 1948 Res Ina Ena Vis seamonke MozillaWindowClass
0x0401D6 2 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke Edit
0x0A0104 1 1948 Max Ina Ena Vis seamonke Task Manager -- items which can be sa
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0x0500EE 3 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaWindowClass
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0x0C013A 5 1948 Res Ina Ena Vis seamonke MozillaWindowClass
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0x060108 4 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaContentWindowClass
0x0C013C 5 1948 Res Ina Ena Vis seamonke MozillaWindowClass
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0x0300F4 8 1948 Res Ina Ena Vis seamonke MozillaWindowClass
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0x0F014E 4 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaContentWindowClass
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0x0500F8 3 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaWindowClass
0x0500F6 3 1948 Res Ina Ena Vis seamonke MozillaWindowClass
0x1600B6 2 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke Edit
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0x0400C4 2 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER ToolbarWindow32
0x0A0100 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke MozillaHiddenWindowClass
0x0700D6 2 1948 Res Ina Ena Vis seamonke MozillaWindowClass
0x09010C 3 1948 Res Ina Ena Vis seamonke MozillaWindowClass
0x0B012C 1 1948 Res Ina Dis Hid seamonke NetscapeDispatchWnd
0x1100B2 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke DDE Server Window
0x0A010E 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke XPCOM:EventReceiver
0x0F0142 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke DDEMLEvent
0x0E0146 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke DDEMLMom
0x0900B8 1 1948 Res Ina Ena Hid seamonke SeaMonkeyMessageWindow
0x0200A4 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER SysFader
0x010086 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER tooltips_class32
0x0300C0 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER SysPager
0x0300BA 2 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER ToolbarWindow32
0x0200A0 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER HiddenFaxWindow
0x010098 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER Connections Tray
0x020066 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER Medidor de energia
0x020068 2 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER Status de energia
0x010092 2 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER Sempre &mostrar Ýcone na barra de tar
0x010094 2 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER Mostrar os &detalhes de cada bateria.
0x010096 2 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER Static
0x030030 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER MS_WebcheckMonitor
0x010072 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER WorkerW
0x030062 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER WorkerW
0x03005E 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER DDEMLEvent
0x03005A 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER DDEMLMom
0x010088 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Hid EXPLORER tooltips_class32
0x01007C 1 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER Program Manager
0x010082 2 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER SHELLDLL_DefView
0x010084 3 1316 Res Ina Ena Vis EXPLORER FolderView
0x03003A 1 1316 Res Ina Dis Hid EXPLORER M
0x050050 1 1316 Res Ina Dis Hid EXPLORER Default IME
0x0D0152 1 1948 Res Ina Dis Hid seamonke M
0x0700D8 1 1948 Res Ina Dis Hid seamonke Default IME
0x0401BA 1 152 Res Ina Dis Hid devldr32 Default IME
0x030036 1 1316 Res Ina Dis Hid EXPLORER Default IME
0x010090 1 1316 Res Ina Dis Hid EXPLORER M
0x03005C 1 1316 Res Ina Dis Hid EXPLORER Default IME

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[Video Head]

Highly recommended to NOT use the CTL+ALT+DEL method to terminate processes unless you are absolutely certain that you know what the service is, what it does and if it can be safely terminated.

Go to: Start + Control Panel + Performance and Maintenance + Administrative Tools + Services

You will see a list of all services, a description of what it does and in some instances what will happen if you stop it, it's status (started or not) and how it starts (manual or automatic). Using this list you can look at each service that has started and determine if it is neccessary...the description is in plain english and makes it much easier than task manager. You can right click on each item to stop it, restart it or change how it starts. Using this method you can set an unnesessary service to start manually so it will not automatically start when you boot your computer.

[Midzuki]

Go to: Start + Control Panel + Performance and Maintenance + Administrative Tools + Services

In other words, hold "Windows" + press "R", type in "services.msc", press "Enter". 8)

[Video Head]

Go to: Start + Control Panel + Performance and Maintenance + Administrative Tools + Services

In other words, hold "Windows" + press "R", type in "services.msc", press "Enter". 8)

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. 8)

[aedipuss]

read all 4 of these pages then go back and work on your services tweaks.

http://members.internettrash.com/megapolon/winxptweak.html

if you don't want to do the research here are 2 reg files. one is the tweak and one to reset to original if the tweak turns off something you need.




!safe_xp_home_sp2_start_v203.zip

[aedipuss]

and the reset one



!default_xp_home_sp2_start_v203.zip

[Midzuki]

Video Head wrote:

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.

Do you mean Microsoft has ever cared about
teaching the average end-user how to fish :P

[SLK001]

To get a better idea of what process is using a service, replace TaskManager with Systernal's Process Explorer. Also, deleting services from inside TaskManager will make your system unstable. It would be best to use the ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS > SERVICES function to stop services, as has been mentioned.

[AlanHK]

I want to try and see how much resources I can regain by removing programs from the task manager via ctrl+alt+del

You can use MSConfig, but better to use a Startup Manager and stop the processes from loading at all.

There are a few, eg Mike Lin's Startup Control Panel

I'll Google for items I don't recognise before killing them. Check the reliability of any warnings. Beware of bogus "Virus!!!" warnings by clueless people, or hoaxers trying to get you to cripple your computer.

[Video Head]

Video Head wrote:

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.

Do you mean Microsoft has ever cared about
teaching the average end-user how to fish :P

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? 8)

[Midzuki]

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Yes. "BTW", sophisms are not a privilege or a private property of the Ancient Greek philosophy.

[Video Head]

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Yes. "BTW", sophisms are not a privilege or a private property of the Ancient Greek philosophy.

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.

[Midzuki]

@ Video Head: could you please try to explain to "nosotros"
what the devil is going on inside your mind?

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death,
a road either to safety or ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.