Task Manager Help

[Slash Dementia]

I don't do much with my computer besides Firefox, Skype, games, and Microsoft Word, but I'd like to know what needs to be running in Task Manager. So, I need help with clearing some stuff out.

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A665, with MS Windows 7 64-bit, Intel Core i3 CPU M 370 at 2.40GHz, 4.0GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics--if this helps at all.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I've done that a few times, I guess I just have to learn what I should remove from start-up and what function they serve. But thank you--for a moment, I forgot about MSconfig.

 

[Tharwen]

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X = Kill to death without consequence (well... the consequence will be that the program turns off, but Windows will be fine. Explorer.exe is in there as a sort of a joke )
✓ = Ignore
? = No idea. A lot of them sound like optional memory-hogs installed by hardware manufacturers, but I don't want to guess.

 

[Slash Dementia]

X = Kill to death without consequence (well... the consequence will be that the program turns off, but Windows will be fine. Explorer.exe is in there as a sort of a joke )
✓ = Ignore
? = No idea. A lot of them sound like optional memory-hogs installed by hardware manufacturers, but I don't want to guess.

lol, I've seen what happens when I close Explorer.exe, but thank you for this. I'll turn these off and see how it goes.

 

[nbrxxn]

My Mom (Phenomenally bad with computers) ended the system idle process once, that took me a while to fix

 

[Tharwen]

Ending explorer doesn't actually do much. You can just start up again straight away and sometimes it's good for making it release a load of memory, but obviously it's quite useful to keep it on

My Mom (Phenomenally bad with computers) ended the system idle process once, that took me a while to fix

What? But that's not even a real process! How can it be ended?! Rawrgrwrawr!

 

[nbrxxn]

What? But that's not even a real process! How can it be ended?! Rawrgrwrawr!

It is on Windows NT systems. We were(and still are) using an XP system which has a system idle process. Basically because a CPU can never really do NOTHING, NT systems put in a system idle process which runs when the computer has nowhere better to put the CPU cycles. If you have more interest, Google can explain it far better than I can.

 

[Tharwen]

What? But that's not even a real process! How can it be ended?! Rawrgrwrawr!

It is on Windows NT systems. We were(and still are) using an XP system which has a system idle process. Basically because a CPU can never really do NOTHING, NT systems put in a system idle process which runs when the computer has nowhere better to put the CPU cycles. If you have more interest, Google can explain it far better than I can.

I know what the System Idle Process is -_-

Incidentally, I was bored at work today, so I opened up an XP Virtual Machine and tried to do as much damage as I could with Task Manager. It turns out that it doesn't even let you shut down the really vital processes, and the only negative effect I got was when I killed svchost, causing some important background service to fail and restart the machine.

 

[nbrxxn]

What? But that's not even a real process! How can it be ended?! Rawrgrwrawr!

It is on Windows NT systems. We were(and still are) using an XP system which has a system idle process. Basically because a CPU can never really do NOTHING, NT systems put in a system idle process which runs when the computer has nowhere better to put the CPU cycles. If you have more interest, Google can explain it far better than I can.

I know what the System Idle Process is -_-

Incidentally, I was bored at work today, so I opened up an XP Virtual Machine and tried to do as much damage as I could with Task Manager. It turns out that it doesn't even let you shut down the really vital processes, and the only negative effect I got was when I killed svchost, causing some important background service to fail and restart the machine.

LOL,( I stand corrected ) Maybe she ended svchost , I wasn't actually there when she did it, and for some reason the computer wouldn't actually re-boot, it just froze right at the beginning. I asked her what she did and she said that she just opened task manager and ended the first process on the list, which i assumed was the system idle process.
Also, now that I think about it, it was Win98. But you'd think they wouldn't let you end it 98 either.
hmmm, now i don't know what she did

 

[Tharwen]

What? But that's not even a real process! How can it be ended?! Rawrgrwrawr!

It is on Windows NT systems. We were(and still are) using an XP system which has a system idle process. Basically because a CPU can never really do NOTHING, NT systems put in a system idle process which runs when the computer has nowhere better to put the CPU cycles. If you have more interest, Google can explain it far better than I can.

I know what the System Idle Process is -_-

Incidentally, I was bored at work today, so I opened up an XP Virtual Machine and tried to do as much damage as I could with Task Manager. It turns out that it doesn't even let you shut down the really vital processes, and the only negative effect I got was when I killed svchost, causing some important background service to fail and restart the machine.

LOL,( I stand corrected ) Maybe she ended svchost , I wasn't actually there when she did it, and for some reason the computer wouldn't actually re-boot, it just froze right at the beginning. I asked her what she did and she said that she just opened task manager and ended the first process on the list, which i assumed was the system idle process.
Also, now that I think about it, it was Win98. But you'd think they wouldn't let you end it 98 either.
hmmm, now i don't know what she did

No-one ever will. Such is the way of errors produced by ignorant relatives.