Cleaning up the Computer, System Processes

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Alyeska
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Cleaning up the Computer, System Processes

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Ok, this laptop I have is pretty nice, but I noticed it has a shitload of processes running that I am sure eat up some of the resources.

I was wondering which ones I can outright kill out of their being useless.

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http://www.majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12

Just kill the unneccesary services and they'll disappear from your task list, too.Anything that's not on this page - ie, programs you installed yourself - are up to you; just google the process or task name and see what comes up.
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But be careful with turning off Windows-specific services. Even if they do not seem to do anything you need, there are often secondary effects vital to your system that aren't very well documented...
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Post by Netko »

In other words, unless you have a very good reason for killing stuff, just leave it alone. It will get paged out to the hard drive if there is no activity anyway, so performance wise it really doesn't matter.
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At least close out your running applications to decrease the list size!
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