How do i limit the amount of programs running?

July 17th, 2009 | by DistanceRunner |
heavymentalist asked:


I use Windows Vista, i have 2 Gb of ram and i have a P4 3.6. I am running about 72 programs and its not really running slow but i wanted to know if there was a way to stop any non-essential programs from running? Also my pc takes about 5 min to shut down can this be sped up or not?

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  1. 4 Responses to “How do i limit the amount of programs running?”

  2. By muffer_3 on Jul 19, 2009 | Reply

    all the icons in the taskbar bottom right are programs running at start up..to stop the running open RUN and type in the word…msconfig press [enter] on the start up tab check the programs not to run at start up

  3. By ashfaquemca07 on Jul 20, 2009 | Reply

    First off all to shut down quickly u can use- hold the cltr key before pressing the shutdown button it will stop all the processes forcefully at a time.

    To limit the no of processes u can use multiple ways:
    1) If u have knowledge abt registry than go to the following tree
    HKEY_LOCAL_USER–>microsoft–>softwares–>select default processes , make a key named disallow run and set its binary value to 1, and than paste all the processes that u won’t want to run.
    2). press Cltr+alt+del go the processes than individually stops the processes u want.
    3) many more…if u want

  4. By Havoc_M107 on Jul 20, 2009 | Reply

    Are you sure you are running 72 programs or do you mean processes? If it is programs, then you have other issues.

    First off, try setting program preferences to not run at startup. If this cannot be found within the program preferences, check links in your STARTUP folder. If that fails, then use MS Config to eliminate them at startup.

    Now that you have stopped the programs from running at startup, there may still be some processes running that cannot be controlled through the processes listed above. For these we need to kill them at the process level. Start by going through your running processes. Search these on Yahoo or on liutilities or neuber (search process name from Yahoo e.g. svchost.exe). one of the sites will tell you whether it is critical or not. (you could also get this list from Hijack This).

    I game, so I created a batch file (use notepad or notepad ++ or your fav text editor and create a task kill bat file) see instructions at link. For any non-critical process create a task kill entry, save the batch file, then run it before you want to game or whenever you want your system to be a bit more responsive.

    As to faster shutdowns, the above steps may speed up the shutdown process, but I have no further advice.

    Hopefully the above is still accurate for Vista, I am still running XP Pro and will be until I have to switch.

  5. By nay25us on Jul 22, 2009 | Reply

    click on run type in msconfig and uncheck anything you dont wish to start with windows

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