I'm not really that technically savvy and I'm having a hard time figuring out which systems or programs I can shut down in XP. Anyone have some advice or a helpful link? Much appreciated.
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If you're referring to Task Manager (the windows you get from pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete), you can usually shut down any task in the Applications tab without hurting your basic system.
Don't use End Process on the Porcesses tab though - it's a "dirty" way of shutting down a program and many of the tasks are system tasks which should not be shut down. Only kill processes in this way as a last resort, ie. if an application crashes or hangs.
If you're referring to which Services you can do without, do a search on Google for ie. "necessary xp services", and you'll get links like this one
Don't use End Process on the Porcesses tab though - it's a "dirty" way of shutting down a program and many of the tasks are system tasks which should not be shut down. Only kill processes in this way as a last resort, ie. if an application crashes or hangs.
If you're referring to which Services you can do without, do a search on Google for ie. "necessary xp services", and you'll get links like this one
Innocence said:
Thanks for your help., but I never see anything running under applications; everything seems to be a process. It was a lot easier under windows 95 -sigh
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