In the old days, which I'm sad to say, for me, is what I exist in, we would be bite accountants. Everything...the last line of code would have to be put to best advantage. I mean, I'd paid over 60 quid for upgrading from 512k to 640k, so I wanted my money's worth. Now, even with
Sysinternal's Process Explorer and disc monitor, I'm still confused as to what a lot of processes are doing.
i have 5 svhost.exe running
I too would be interested to know just what these do. How many should be running? Can I kill some of 'em just for fun? Right now there are 3 - seemingly taking no resources.
AT this stage of my existence, I need a machine to run fairly near optimum, but just do not have the time to RTFM. Every day, more jobs to do and less money to do them with. Nobody told me retirement was going to be like this - technology accelerating away from One at warp speed, but allowing one to drown in technocomplexity if I don't keep up. I just want to press a button and every bit of stuff I don't need, comes shredded out of a slot in the front of me PC.
(Neither did anyone tell me that retirement was going to be more demanding than a full time job, but that's an issue for JB)
I for one will be looking at Black Viper's site, investing a little more time on this darn machine...the machine that's supposed to be saving me time.