Background program woes

[Morris]

Upon hitting ctl+alt+del, I see that there are a ton of "processes" running
on my new Dell. On my previous machines, I would make sure that only
"systray" and "Explorer" were running behind the scenes, nothing else. It
bugs the crap out of me that all these "processes" are running needlessly (I
assume) and taking up system resources. Folks, what is normal for XP as far
as background programs go? I'm brand new to XP, but not to computers, so any
help or advice on how to minimize these behind the scenes "processes" would
be greatly appreciated!

Morris

[Crusty \(-: Old Bastard :-\)]

I've got 46 processes running at this time with no system slow down!

"Morris" > wrote in message
...
> Upon hitting ctl+alt+del, I see that there are a ton of "processes"
running
> on my new Dell. On my previous machines, I would make sure that only
> "systray" and "Explorer" were running behind the scenes, nothing else. It
> bugs the crap out of me that all these "processes" are running needlessly
(I
> assume) and taking up system resources. Folks, what is normal for XP as
far
> as background programs go? I'm brand new to XP, but not to computers, so
any
> help or advice on how to minimize these behind the scenes "processes"
would
> be greatly appreciated!
>
> Morris
>
>
>
>

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Morris,

On previous machines, you just didn't see the normal background processes.
Task Manager in Win9x systems was fairly limited in this manner, all you saw
was systray and explorer, but in fact much more was going on.. The truth is
that many of those processes you see are normal. For a better idea of what
is going on, check the startup and services tabs of msconfig.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Morris" > wrote in message
...
> Upon hitting ctl+alt+del, I see that there are a ton of "processes"
running
> on my new Dell. On my previous machines, I would make sure that only
> "systray" and "Explorer" were running behind the scenes, nothing else. It
> bugs the crap out of me that all these "processes" are running needlessly
(I
> assume) and taking up system resources. Folks, what is normal for XP as
far
> as background programs go? I'm brand new to XP, but not to computers, so
any
> help or advice on how to minimize these behind the scenes "processes"
would
> be greatly appreciated!
>
> Morris
>
>
>
>

[Harry Ohrn]

You can get a fairly decent read on Services here
http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

--

Harry Ohrn - MS MVP (Windows Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/
www.webtree.ca/newlife/


"Morris" > wrote in message
...
> Upon hitting ctl+alt+del, I see that there are a ton of "processes"
running
> on my new Dell. On my previous machines, I would make sure that only
> "systray" and "Explorer" were running behind the scenes, nothing else. It
> bugs the crap out of me that all these "processes" are running needlessly
(I
> assume) and taking up system resources. Folks, what is normal for XP as
far
> as background programs go? I'm brand new to XP, but not to computers, so
any
> help or advice on how to minimize these behind the scenes "processes"
would
> be greatly appreciated!
>
> Morris
>
>
>
>