processing menu? what should be running?
my mom has an emachine that i gave her..it worked fine and now it is slow as molasses..when i clicked on end task (ctrl-alt-dlt) there is a window that says processes...there are 38 processes running...one said 201,202k mem usage...i ended it and it said that it might do harm but i did it anyways now the machine is atleast running fast enough to get online but i still have 37 processes running...can anyone tell me what the bare bones ones are that i should have running and how to get to the start up programs and which one should be running at start up... a friend once told me that after while a computer will have a bunch of programs starting up in the beginning from downloading programs and that they dont need to be running right from the start...im a novice at playing with the computer so any help would be great...thanks....oh my physical memory says 260080 total 52724 available 71940 system cache i have deleted most of the extra files and program but i do have a bunch of pics