Saturday August 9 2008
Posted By: When pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete on your computer you’ll get the task manager. In the task manager you can find a lot of valuable information such as: which applications and process are running at the moment, your pc performances, some info about your network activities and the current user which is logged on the computer.
When looking at the process tab in your task manager you’ll find that there are a lot of processes on your computer which are running. Some of them speak for them selfs such as: Photoshop.exe (which means that Photoshop is running), FireFox.exe (which means that FireFox is running) and you’ll also see some process which you didn’t start or know about. Processes like alg.exe, svchost.exe, ccapp.exe, ctfmon.exe etc..
There might also be a process of a program which you have installed with the autorun function (So it starts each time you turn your computer on!). Here’s what I do in this situation, depending on which program it is and if I NEED it, I’ll make sure that this doesn’t run when I turn my computer on.
I find the information in the process tab very handy cause I want to know what my pc is up to and which process are running at the moment. There are process which can be stopped simply because you don’t need/use them. Some of them can’t/shouldn’t be stopped because Windows XP needs them!!
By disabling the unnecessary process and the autorun programs you can gain more CPU & RAM resources and you’ll also notice that you’r computer is starting up more quickly.
So if you need to find more information about the process which are running on your pc and which you don’t know about, you can visit File.net.
On File.net you can find some background information about the process, which program uses that process, what it’s good for and how you can remove/stop the process.
So be in control of your computer and decide which programs may run on your computer! 
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There are 8 comment(s) for this article so far ;)
My machine is definitely slowing down these days. Maybe this is something I should have a look at. Thanks for sharing this.
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The Taskmanager of Windows Vista is much powerfull than that of windows XP, it also has one panel called resource manager. its really great to use.
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I have killed processes in the past when I was using AVG antivirus since the background scanning took lots of resources.
However, I did not dare to kill any other processes but now thanks for the link to file.net, I can check out what are those processes are all about.
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You can try this one Sailor and see if your system is running a bit faster. By the way: Don’t forget to fragment you’r system once in a while. You can use DG-Defragment or Defraggler. This might also help you out!
Well Chetan.. The problem is that I don’t use Vista!
I’m stil a Windows XP Pro user.. I don’t know but someday I’ll switch to Vista…
If you know what you’re doing then nothing can go wrong Shaxx. If you don’t know to kill the process or not, just visit file.net. If that doesn’t provide you the information, you can always ask Google!
Stopping the process can make your system faster.. It’s worth trying it!
Hello Bioteck, I often use the CTRL+ALT+DELETE to disable any process that is not used to save some memory for my computer and for faster loading during multi-tasking.
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Yeah..Killing some of the process can save you some memory indeed Hye Munar.
BioTeck,
Nice post. I always pick the name of the proces with extension and try to google it. but the site you mentioned is good.
Thanks,
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That’s what I always did before I knew about this site Nihar. This will make thing a lot easier!!