Welcome to the windows process section. Here you will find information about 1000’s of windows processes and services, including potential threats, severity levels, related software authors and products. Our directory should be used as a guide to those annoying little processes that just seem to eat up your memory! Find out which ones are unnecessary and kill them off or remove them from windows start up.
We strongly recommend that before you start deleting files left right and center, always use a trusted virus checking software to scan your systems hard drive and memory. Most professional virus checkers will go as far as removing threats and even putting items in quarantine that are suspicious. Advanced users may find that a virus checker does a good job in cleaning up dangerous files but little to speed up Windows itself. Checking the running processes on your machine and disabling start up services can really help increase your computers speed. You will find that 30% of services running on your computer are additional unwanted programs. It’s always good to regularly clean your computer and check that old programs (that are no longer wanted) are either uninstalled or prevented from starting up automatically.
Most people are unaware that small services running in the background can easily hog your bandwidth by trying to make calls through the web. Examples of such services include upgrade services, which regularly check with a central server to see if a new version is available e.g. Real Player. We recommend that you hit the heart of the problem by opening the preferences of these applications and switching off ‘automatic’ updates. This is a simple measure with some great results.
Which tools will you need to track down windows processes and disable them? Your main ally in tracking running processes is the Windows Task Manager (opened using Ctrl – Alt –Delete and selecting Task Manager). This application lists all running processes together with their names. Be careful, some processes are disguised to run under the same name of a perfectly valid process. Always check the location of the process before attempting to alter it. Another great tool in your arsenal is the System Configuration snap-in which lets you choose which services are allowed to automatically start during Windows start up. Opened by typing msconfig into the Start – Run window. Always remember to check the location of the service before disabling it, just in case it’s an essential service such as a mouse driver or keyboard input!
Well, that’s enough advice from us. Good luck in hunting those processes down!