How can I tell which processes and/or services could be redundant?
I ran task manager when I had nothing running and it shows 72 processes and a lot of services. Some of the services are stopped.
Have attached screen shots of the task manager displays.
Would welcome any advice or comments.
Run msconfig.exe.
Look at the services tab. Check "hide all Microsoft services".
Examine the remaining services. How many do you have? I have 6 non-Microsoft services running. You should need very few non-MS services to run safely.
But a stopped service shouldn't be causing you any problems.
Last edited by ignatzatsonic; 10 Nov 2011 at 08:09.
I have quite a few non-MS services, but each one is identified as being from an installed application. It seems that just about every application has its own service.
I am not experiencing any problems, I was just curious about what I thought was a high number of processes and services.
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