tag:ask-leo.com,2009://3/tag:ask-leo.com,2008://3.3303- 2009-11-18T17:50:34Z Comments for What programs should be running on my machine in the background? Movable Type 4.25 tag:ask-leo.com,2008://3.3303-comment:31370 Comment from Eli Coten on 2008-03-01 Eli Coten Simply closing processes will not usually do any irreversible damage. Pretty much everything that you close using Task Manager, Process Explorer or similar will reappear next time the computer is restarted - for the better or for the worse.

Its better if you accidentally close something you want/need but simply closing things from Task Manager doesn't get rid of them permanently. That's something which is a whole article in itself because each process will have a different way to deal with it. There is no single way to kill any process. You might come across tools that claim to "block a program/process from running" but these tools themselves will be an extra program, and usually they will simply let the program start and try to close it as soon as it starts, which is extra work for the computer and will certainly not make your computer start up any quicker.

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 2008-03-01T19:53:45Z tag:ask-leo.com,2008://3.3303-comment:31369 Comment from Carl R. Goodwin on 2008-02-29 Carl R. Goodwin I have found that this site helps explain what is running on certain configurations: "www.blackviper.com". :)

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