How can I tell what's running on my machine?

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I hoping if you could tell me how to eliminate any hindering/ unnecessary processes from starting? thanks, Kishon Monteith

Hi,

I don't like the idea of running as Administrator, so I have an 'ordinary' account that I normally use. That's a member of the 'Power Users' group. But I can only see my own processes on the Task Manager.
The "Show processes from all users" box is greyed out.

How can I set up my account to view all processes?

I AM STATE COMMANDER FOR THE DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS.BEING NON PROFIT AND ALL OF US VOLUNTEERS MAKES IT DIFFICULT GETTING HELP FOR OUR COMPUTER..I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF I WOULD HAVE ANY PRBLEM OR IF AANY WOULD OCCUR IF I STOPPED ALL PROCESSES RUNNING ON MY TASK MGR.THERE ARE ROUGHLY 73 PROCESSES RUNNING AND MY COMPUTER IS VERY VERY SLOW..I WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR HELP

No -- stopping all processes will crash your machine, as some of them are requied. I would follow the instructions in the article and related articles to attempt to identify what each process is, and whether or not you need it before just killing things.

DER LEO
HOW DO I INCERASE VIRTUAL MEMORY AND WAT DIGITS TO I PUT IN THE BOXES?

Excellent coverage of the subject....Thank You Leo !!!!!

how do I know what processor I have. Software I want to run says I need a pentium 4, but when I check the properties in "MY COMPUTER", it says AMD athalon. What is this?

My home computer will not allow Task Manager to open when hitting "ctl+alt=del" How can I fix this and/or open Task Mangaer another way?
Thanks in advance.

I have Windows ME...Outlook Express will not open...error says another instance of it is already running...????...I closed everything in the Task bar except Explorer and Systray...how can I get to the program that they say is already open so I can recieve mail. thanks

iam srinivas,
i have one doubt , supppose in my task manager is diabled,how to i know what are the programmes going on my machine.

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