Hi Folks,
I largely use a 5 year old laptop for personal / occasional professional use, running on Wingows XP [2002 Media Centre Edition].
Basically I run Word, Excel, Powerpoint, IE8, Google Earth, (basic) photo manipulation software, skype and the usual Adobe & video players.
I'm no IT expert, but I do keep the operating system with Microsoft updates (now at service pack 3), so as it now seems to me that my laptop now takes a lot longer to boot up and also seems to have a hell of a lot of processes running in the background (71 last time I hit Control-Alt-Delete when running normally).
My question is how can I tell what processes that are running in the background are doing for me, as there are a few with the same name & what's the easiest way to get rid of any redundant ones from my hard drive & will I need to do any registry editing to stop them coming back?
Any help at all would be appreciated.
Cheers
Donkey