taskmanager too full?

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Lester

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O.K. New question for you chaps. My PC is a bit slow and crap now 950 duron 512 meg ram. So before I bite the bullet and upgrade (I don't really need massess of power, I'd just like to speed the whole thing up a bit) can you tell me which of these SHOULDNT be running all the time? It seems a bit full to me.

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I'd like to know which ones I can close and also how to stop them from starting again.. Thx in advance.
 
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pcg79

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WZQPICK ?
CConnect
eye
qttask?
EchoCtrl
mixer
Barrylogon
internat
netscape6

afaik

Theres lots of windows things nowadays.
 
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Tom

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If you do a google search on some of those, it will bring up various websites that are devoted to telling you what each program does, and which you can remove.
 
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Lester

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Originally posted by pcg79
WZQPICK ?
CConnect
eye
qttask?
EchoCtrl
mixer
Barrylogon
internat
netscape6

afaik

Theres lots of windows things nowadays.
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cconnect is my cable dsl
eye is allseeing eye
and barrylogon is my badge of honour|!!!
netscape speaks for itself
but I have no idea what those others are.
 
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(Shovel)

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WinZip Quck Pick (the WinZip System tray icon) can go f you don't use it.
Correct Connect can - I believe - be disposed of as it is not a required part of a broadband connection. We have it on NTL back home, but I know people running home networks and so don't use it. Assuming you have a standard network port set up (rather than plugged in USB - in which case I don't know whether you need it or not). "Try it and see" might be a good idea...

Qttask is Quicktime's system tray icon. You can disable that somewhere in the QT options.

Mixer will be a soundcard thing. If you have extra sound software running that you don't want/don't need you can disable that.

Netscape 6. Mozilla does eat up a lot of memory - it's one of the supposed downsides. The browser will start up slower if you disable "Quick Launch" in preferences, but the system start up will be quicker, and it wont be resident in RAM. You kinda have to weigh it up.

And I don't know about the others.

One thing would be to check your system tray. Anything in there that you never click on, try and get rid of it - or at least find out what it is!
 
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Tom

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http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/qttask/

http://www.tburke.net/info/reskittools/topics/cconnect.htm

You don't need eye running all the time, make sure it closes rather then minimises when u click 'close'

Mixer as has been said, probably a soundcard thing, and probably unneccesary

Barrylogon - unnecessary, just navigate to the barrysworld webpage before you play on a server, and that should work fine (if you have a static IP)

http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/internat/

pctspk.exe could be a modem driver - http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=latit_modem&message.id=3514

Do a google search on each one, include the file extension.

This is a piccie of my taskman, just to compare so you know what tasks tend to be common between computers


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BTW do you know where in the registry to go to stop programs from running during boot? I think (from memory) its local _user>software>microsoft>windows>run or something similar
 
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Tom

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btw lester I just noticed u dont appear to have a firewall or antivirus software?
 
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~YuckFou~

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Originally posted by Tom[SHOTTEH]
btw lester I just noticed u dont appear to have a firewall or antivirus software?
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*hacks*
 
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(Shovel)

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Mine is distinctly worse than yours tbh... I have a lot of untidied crap:

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Dr_Weasel

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If you run the "msconfig" program in start->run it brings up a window where if you go to the right most tab on the top, it gives you a list of programs that are run during startup. (Win 98, Win XP and Win ME only. Not 2k, NT or 95)

You can untick the ones you dont wat to run. Usually there is stuff for Norton AV for example that you will need, but quite often theres stuff that sneaks in like Quick Time, Real Player and
sometimes some stuff that reminds you to register for programs in few weeks.

If you are unsure, google about for the executable name. You will usually find a page that explains what it is.

/Edit: This page explains it better than me... MSCONFIG
 
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Lester

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Holy bafuckinjoley! Yours are worse than mine!!


And re: firewall: who cares? Help yourself. cba :)


Thx for the help. I have another question too :)

I want to run another computer and share the tinternet. I'm on NTL and I suppose they don't like you doing it?
What's the best way to do it? They both only really need to run C.S. type games.

I tried to connect two before but had probs which I think was down to using two different OS - win 98 and 200 etc. Should that matter? They wouldn't recognise each other
 
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Trem

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Quite easy to run 2 pc's if you have network cards I think, but you dont do you?

Our local friendly, smelly dwarf can get you another NTL modem and you run off a splitter, they were £60 I think.
 
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Lester

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Why do we talk more on here than in real life? Is it a man thing? I love you.
 
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Trem

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Love is a word thats banded around way too often on here.


















I love you as well:(
















selling me out bastard:eek:

















LOVE!!
 
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Testin da Cable

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and you two are getting a room...when again?


















can I come too?



















;)
 
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Jonty

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Another thread that took the wrong turning at Off-Topic Junction :rolleyes: There's no hope for it now :p

Kind Regards
 
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Jonty

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Originablly posted by Testin da Cable
you love it really
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TdC, I told you, it could never work out between us, I mean ... oh, wait, you were talking about the posts *ahem* Yeah.

*Jonty makes a dash for the door*

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leggy

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*takes note of lester's CC numbers*

*realises cards are maxed*

*wonders why when everything he buys is hot*
 
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Jonty

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Notice! For those of you searching for answers at a future point in time, replies to this thread officially ended around the seventh post :p

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Dr_Weasel

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Although the 12th post was by far the best answer given... ;)
 
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Jonty

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Originally posted by Dr_Weasel
Although the 12th post was by far the best answer given... ;)
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I believe that's a very open-minded, fair and objective answer :p *ahem*

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Lester

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This happens to all my threads :(


Is it me do y'think?


Anyway my cable dsl is USB_in so I think I need the 1st pc to have a network card and then just connect to the other with network card. Would different OS make it any harder?
 
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