i have to many processes runniing on my task manager?

Question

how do i stop them, and keep them from returning. I have waited forever on the phone to gateway and nobody gets back to me. I have a emachine windows xp.intel r. it is new, and i get a notice that i have too many programs running. what is safe to close.I have at least 50 programs on it at the same time.

Answer 1

Select Start, Run, type

msconfig

and click OK. In the resulting System Configuration Utility dialog box, click the Startup tab to display a list of all programs that start whenever Windows 98 starts. Deselect the pesky one (making certain you know which one it is), then click OK. The next time you start Windows, that program is nowhere in sight.

Answer 2

shut down all programs u r not using now, if u want 2 keep the program save all u want go 2 favorites and save them there
then turn off your computer by hand.now start your comp.
and go online, you shouldn't run more than 4-5 programs at a time it really slow down processing anytime u start a new application and u like that 1 save 2 favorites always.


that should help u

have fun kingar1

Answer 3

I don't know how much you know about computers so hard to say where u would start. First try going to start open programs and look for start up and open and see whats opening there on start up and delete any u don't want to start. Contact me if you want to go further, ok.

Answer 4

well heres a website u can use to search different tasks that are running it has a huge database u can search...and hopefull will let u know whether or not u should end the task or not...
http://www.tasklist.org/

Answer 5

any program that does'nt say system in the task manager processes can safely be shut down...

Answer 6

highlight it/ end task done