explorer.exe
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- LordShard
by LordShard » Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:20 am
EM_EXEC is a logitec mouse driver that doesn't really do anything other than cause imcompitibility of your scroll wheel in games! I know what trillian and winamp is, but taskmanager shouldn't come up as a process is why I said try killing that.Originally posted by Bagginses
Task manager was open because I was taking a screenshot of it and I was listening to music and chatting at the same time, hence, winamp and trillian. Not sure what EM_EXEC but I'll see if I can find out. I'll check that utility and if it's seeming as if there's something fishy going on I'll just wipe this baby clean.
-Bagginses
Edit: um, where do I find that system configuration utility. I checked in control panel and didn't seem to find it. Thanks.
- Bullhead
by Bullhead » Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:52 am
Originally posted by LordShard
I know what trillian and winamp is, but taskmanager shouldn't come up as a process is why I said try killing that.
Task manager SHOULD come up, because it is a process that is running when you call for it by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del.It always has been, and always will, show itself when you pull that window up (as it should). Try killing the process, watch what happens........
Oh, and Bagginses, do this:
Start -> Run -> msconfig (type that in the box). The last tab is labeled "Startup." It will list all the applications that windows is told to load when it starts up. Uncheck explorer.exe if it is there. DO NOT uncheck things if you don't know what they do, it can cause all kinds of fun. If you are unsure of what something is, type the file name and/or description into google.
- Colonel Ingus
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by Colonel Ingus » Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:37 am
(after class, when I'm a bit more awake ).
Oh Yeah!
Well some of us have no class!
Actually as far as under the Startup tab I have absolutely everything unchecked and have no problems. IF I remember correctly all of these are just "load on start up" and so they take up some ram when loaded. It won't hurt anything to have these unchecked as you can start them at will when wanted.
And the tab just to the left of it (at work on an NT system and can't remember the name:P ) if you go under it there is a tab that says something like "hide windows funtions?" click that and then unclick anything that remains.
From what i remember when both of these are done they just stop the programs from loading on start up. Correct me if I am wrong but it seems to free up some resources and has no negative impact as far as I can see.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ... Benjamin Franklin
- Bullhead
by Bullhead » Mon Mar 29, 2004 12:55 pm
Originally posted by Colonel Ingus
Actually as far as under the Startup tab I have absolutely everything unchecked and have no problems. IF I remember correctly all of these are just "load on start up" and so they take up some ram when loaded. It won't hurt anything to have these unchecked as you can start them at will when wanted.
And the tab just to the left of it (at work on an NT system and can't remember the name:P ) if you go under it there is a tab that says something like "hide windows funtions?" click that and then unclick anything that remains.
ARRRRGGGHHH
1. Turning off everything checked there is NOT necessarily a good thing. In my case, if I did that, I'd lose a good chunk of functionality from my Norton AV, as well as a useful little tray app for my Sound"card".
2. Same goes for the "services" tab, where you can hide the MS services. I'd lose ALL functionality for Norton if I did that, as well as some of my ATI services, and my vid card overclocking util. The performance gained from turning them off is negligible, and is NOWHERE near enough to offset the loss in functionality (and in my case protection) offered by these services.......
.- Bagginses
by Bagginses » Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:39 pm
Well I downloaded that AVG program in the other thread, and I think it set off the time bomb that was lying in wait. I installed it and everytime I loaded up windows I got a blue screen of death, so I said screw it, and just reformatted the whole thing. Problem solved. Now to go download AVG so this doesn't happen again.
-Bagginses
-Bagginses
- RCinator
by RCinator » Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:13 pm
Originally posted by TestMonkey#8
any reason why it needs 4 processes that look to be doing the same thing? Can you disable it?
Do NOT kill svchost without knowing what is running behind it. Svchost.exe is a host process or generic service bootsrapper for other windows services. Instead of writing a the full wrapper for a service, developers (MS included) frequently use svchost as a host process to provide the basic service dispatch functions. Several critical windows components run under the svchost process. Killing them could be very bad indeed.
- Bullhead
by Bullhead » Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:20 pm
Originally posted by RCinator
Do NOT kill svchost without knowing what is running behind it. Svchost.exe is a host process or generic service bootsrapper for other windows services. Instead of writing a the full wrapper for a service, developers (MS included) frequently use svchost as a host process to provide the basic service dispatch functions. Several critical windows components run under the svchost process. Killing them could be very bad indeed.
NO NO NO, it's safe, just like Alt-F4
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