Important processes on the computer?

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Posted by StereoPrincess on May-18-2005 11:46:

Important processes on the computer?

what are the processes you have to leave running for minimal operation of windows.

i downloaded some nasty program and everytime i try to delete it is says it's in use and i can't delete it.

my computer went down to a crawl.

Posted by stren on May-18-2005 11:51:

format disk and reinstall windows ?

Posted by Dervish on May-18-2005 12:07:

Emmmm you could do that..... or download >Ad Aware< and get rid of it.

Posted by StereoPrincess on May-18-2005 13:50:

quote:
Originally posted by Dervish
Emmmm you could do that..... or download >Ad Aware< and get rid of it.

it's wasn't spyware.

adaware wasn't picking it up.

it just kept on trying to open itself.

i was finally able to delete it.

Posted by igottaknow on May-18-2005 14:17:

reinstall windows and don't download 'free' software or pr0n. problem solved

Posted by stren on May-18-2005 14:27:

quote:
Originally posted by igottaknow
reinstall windows and don't download 'free' software or pr0n. problem solved

i guess you would know

Posted by igottaknow on May-18-2005 15:17:

quote:
Originally posted by stren
i guess you would know

Posted by Sunsnail on May-18-2005 17:10:

could start it in safe-mode

Posted by robin on May-18-2005 17:26:

get moveonboot (google for that) allows you to select files to be deleted before windows fully starts. (after a reboot)

Always worked for me

Posted by Omega_Blue on May-18-2005 17:30:

quote:
Originally posted by stren
format disk and reinstall windows ?

yup. explorer.exe is a pretty important process.

Posted by Zenchowdah on May-18-2005 18:01:

quote:
Originally posted by Omega_Blue
yup. explorer.exe is a pretty important process.

actually, you can kill and restart that at will.

Posted by aloep on May-18-2005 18:50:

quote:
Originally posted by Zenchowdah
actually, you can kill and restart that at will.

Yep, and you can remove it and change it to a different shell if you wish, such as PROGMAN.EXE.

Posted by AwakenedAddict on May-18-2005 18:55:

If I ever have to investigate system processes i use this site:

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Task...es/tasklist.htm

Posted by Streakfury on May-18-2005 21:18:

Ad-Aware, my arse. Norton all the way. That'll slow your machine down hehe, but it don't half get rid of spyware/viruses/gayware.

Posted by yujie__ on May-18-2005 23:04:

norton slows down my system, there a resource hog and bloated. I used symantec antivirus + spybot s&d, ms antispyware and 2 firewall: zonealarm and wrt54g