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Windows Task Manager Processes: Which ones are necessary?
Nathan Sokalski wrote:
My system has 512MB memory, yet I sometimes recieve a notification message stating I am low on system memory and that the system is increasing the size of my paging file. I know what a paging file is, and why it gets increased, and my current settings for memory usage a Initial Size: 512MB Maximum Size: 1024MB Although I never actually kept track, it seems like I receive this message usually when I keep my computer turned on for several days at a time. Because I never used to receive this message, and I don't believe I installed any software since then that I keep running, I would like to find out what each of the processes displayed in Windows Task Manager is and why each one got started, so that I can prevent unnecessary ones from getting started. Because the processes do not list the application or process that started them, how can I find out this information? I have looked in all of the "Run" directories in my registries, so I know none of them are being started by that, and my Startup folder is empty. If someone could help me in learning how to find out what started each process (and why some of them such as SVCHOST.EXE gets started multiple times sometimes by SYSTEM, sometimes by NETWORK SERVICE, and sometimes by LOCAL SERVICE), and what I might be able to do to stop any unnecessary processes from starting. Thanks. http://www.answersthatwork.com/Taskl...s/tasklist.htm http://www.blackviper.com/ |
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Windows Task Manager Processes: Which ones are necessary?
Nathan Sokalski wrote:
My system has 512MB memory, yet I sometimes recieve a notification message stating I am low on system memory and that the system is increasing the size of my paging file. I know what a paging file is, and why it gets increased, and my current settings for memory usage a Initial Size: 512MB Maximum Size: 1024MB Although I never actually kept track, it seems like I receive this message usually when I keep my computer turned on for several days at a time. Because I never used to receive this message, and I don't believe I installed any software since then that I keep running, I would like to find out what each of the processes displayed in Windows Task Manager is and why each one got started, so that I can prevent unnecessary ones from getting started. In Task Manager - Processes, set View - Choose Columns to display Memory and Memory Delta for each process. Then monitor for what process is using a large and every increasing amount of memory and concentrate on that. But it may result from other reasons; see the Problems section at my page www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm. One of the interferences from Symantec software sounds probable, and it has just been reported here that it has resulted as one of several side effects of a Copy Protection system called PACE (see discussion on that at http://www.pfarrell.com/prc/pace.html) Provided you do not keep constantly loading more and more instances of programs without ever exiting them, your page file settings should be more than enough -- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit) |
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