RE: Tasks that run without me scheduling them and how to control such

Good Day ...

1. Tasks run without me scheduling them. I can not tell what is running,
and/or, how to stop them.
2. I have Vista Home Premium on a Dell inspiron 531. CPU: AMD 64 X2, dual
core 4000+ 2.1 ghz,
2gb memory; system type 32-bit Op Sys
3. At various times 'activity' starts and really pounds the hard drive. If
I do ' Ctrl/Alt/Delete' to 'Start Task Manager'
I do not see any Applications running. I can see processor usage.
4. If you would be kind enough to tell me what info to provide and, how to
obtain such, I will gladly do.
5. Under XP I can see what is running and act accordingly. Under Vista, I
do not know how, or what to do.
6. I would like to know what is running and how to control such.
Thank you for your guidance, direction, time, and consideration.

Jim
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These background tasks are probably not applications, simply processes.
Start task manager, select the processes tab
select show processes from all users.
sort by CPU usage (click CPU column till little arrow point down) to sort by
CPU usage with highest at top
there you will see what is running

Be aware that Vista does a lot of system maintenance in the background
especially when the computer is idle. Killing these processes my be bad for
your system.

Michael

"Jim Hughes" <> wrote in message
news:A8524DD4-2A92-4C18-A5E8-...
> Good Day ...
>
> 1. Tasks run without me scheduling them. I can not tell what is running,
> and/or, how to stop them.
> 2. I have Vista Home Premium on a Dell inspiron 531. CPU: AMD 64 X2,
> dual core 4000+ 2.1 ghz,
> 2gb memory; system type 32-bit Op Sys
> 3. At various times 'activity' starts and really pounds the hard drive.
> If I do ' Ctrl/Alt/Delete' to 'Start Task Manager'
> I do not see any Applications running. I can see processor usage.
> 4. If you would be kind enough to tell me what info to provide and, how
> to obtain such, I will gladly do.
> 5. Under XP I can see what is running and act accordingly. Under Vista,
> I do not know how, or what to do.
> 6. I would like to know what is running and how to control such.
> Thank you for your guidance, direction, time, and consideration.
>
> Jim
> ********************

Michael Malraven ...
Thank you. I appreciate your help.

I will follow your direction and see what I can make of the situation.

I have a problem w/Vista running when & what it wants without regard to what
I am doing. 'These' processes have run when I am burning a DVD; rendering a
video; and more, not to the benefit of the application(s) I ran.

If Vista runs something in the background, I would like to view such, have
options to allow or disallow, to gain control when I need control.

Also wish that Vista would 'talk to me,' and tell me why and what relative
to its processes. If I have nothing to gain by allowing those processes, I
would choose 'do not run.'

Thanks Michael.

Take care
Jim
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"Michael Walraven" <> wrote in message
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> These background tasks are probably not applications, simply processes.
> Start task manager, select the processes tab
> select show processes from all users.
> sort by CPU usage (click CPU column till little arrow point down) to sort
> by CPU usage with highest at top
> there you will see what is running
>
> Be aware that Vista does a lot of system maintenance in the background
> especially when the computer is idle. Killing these processes my be bad
> for your system.
>
> Michael
>
> "Jim Hughes" <> wrote in message
> news:A8524DD4-2A92-4C18-A5E8-...
>> Good Day ...
>>
>> 1. Tasks run without me scheduling them. I can not tell what is
>> running, and/or, how to stop them.
>> 2. I have Vista Home Premium on a Dell inspiron 531. CPU: AMD 64 X2,
>> dual core 4000+ 2.1 ghz,
>> 2gb memory; system type 32-bit Op Sys
>> 3. At various times 'activity' starts and really pounds the hard drive.
>> If I do ' Ctrl/Alt/Delete' to 'Start Task Manager'
>> I do not see any Applications running. I can see processor usage.
>> 4. If you would be kind enough to tell me what info to provide and, how
>> to obtain such, I will gladly do.
>> 5. Under XP I can see what is running and act accordingly. Under Vista,
>> I do not know how, or what to do.
>> 6. I would like to know what is running and how to control such.
>> Thank you for your guidance, direction, time, and consideration.
>>
>> Jim
>> ********************
>