• 09-03-2004, 04:29 PM
    hershon
    HP XP Processes Which Can Be Disabled
    It apparently is unanimous that there are too many processes running on HP even if one uses MSCONFIG. I have an HP m260n Media Center PC and have between 35-39 processes always running which HP says is about right. However, everyone on this board and another board said HP is notorious for running stuff I don't need and slowing down the computer. Can someone please go through my list of the processes running on my computer and tell me which I can disable? I didn't list memory usage next to them (they each use various amounts of memory from 25,500K to 20K) if that is important in figuring out what to disable let me know and I'll update the list. Thanks for any help offered.

    Administrator

    Msmsgs.exe
    Agentsvr.exe
    ViewMgr.exe
    As.exe
    Ps2.exe
    CCApp.exe
    Shwicon.exe
    Hpsysdrv.exe
    Explorer.exe
    Winwood.exe
    Taskmgr.exe

    System

    Symlcsvc.exe
    Scchost.exe
    Savscan.exe
    Spoosv.exe
    CcEvtMgr.exw
    CCSetMgr.exe
    Nvsvc32.exe
    NAVAPSVS.EXE
    Svchost.exe
    Svchost.exe
    Incdsrv.exe
    Lsass.exe
    Services.exe
    Winlogin.exe
    Crss.exe
    Ehsched.exe
    Smss.exe
    Btwdins.exe
    System
    System Idle Process

    Local Service

    Alg.exe
    Svchost.exe

    Network Service

    Svchost.exe
  • 09-03-2004, 04:49 PM
    N. Abstentia
    The only way to fix it is to perform a clean install, that will make a major difference.

    But you can google all your processes and you can see what each of them does.
  • 09-03-2004, 04:58 PM
    Woochifer
    The Black Viper website has a great guide to Windows services and processes that can be disabled. Several of the ones that Windows activates by default do take up a lot of memory and serve little purpose for most users. One of the first pointers on that website is that you should deactivate the background services only through the management console, not through the MSCONFIG function or the hardware profiles, because the management console will not let you deactivate services that are need to boot up the computer.

    Anyway, here's the site. After using this, I was able to recover significant memory from my system and reduce some of the nuisances (like the spam IMs you get through the Windows Messenger service, which serves little purpose unless you're on a corporate network that uses that for IT alerts).

    http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm