"David" <> wrote in message
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>I am running Vista Ultimate with a 380 Gigahertz CPU and Raid0
>configuration. My problem is too many background services and processes:
>110 to be exact. If I try to remove any of them, systems warns that it is
>dangerous, or something like that. Also, some of these processes have as
>many as 40 to 50 dependicies. I have 2 Gygabits of Ram, and this rarely
>goes over 50%. However, my CPU is constantly running at 100% and
>performance is noticably poor in many applications. It seems to ebb and
>flow, but is very annoying, and I have had several total lockups because of
>this being streched to the limit. Can anyone give me. Can anyone give any
>advice about how to go about removing these background services, but still
>available when needed. I can't imagine that I'm actually using all of
>these processes and/or services at any given time. Is there a web site
>where might be able to get some assistance on what I need run and what I
>can leave out through msconfig? These services are so abreviated that it's
>impossible to tell what they are even doing, if anything. Thanks for any
>advice you may be able to give me.
It seems to me that you have a malware process running or some process has
gone out of control taking the CPU to 100%. You need to go find it instead
of trying to shutdown services and processes you know nothing about.
<http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23780-order,1-page,1/description.html>
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articl...vironment.html
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx>
To use PE, you go to menu View/Show Lower/Pane/Show All Dll(s), and PE will
show you every process that the process in the upper pane is hosting when
you click on a line in the upper pane.
You can right-click a line in the upper pane and go to properties where you
will see more tabs, like the one that shows if a process is being hosted by
a service etc, etc.
Maybe it's best that you use PE and go look, instead of running around
blindly shutting down services that might not even be the problem.