My computer has a lot of programs running, how can i check them?

Question

My father said on Windows 95 there was a way to check what programs were running at any time, and we have XP now, and he hasn't had to check yet. I wanted to see waht was running, and possibly stop them, they're making my computer slow, how can i check?

Please help, it's appreciated.

Answer 1

Task manager.

Right click on the toolbar anywhere where there is a 'gap' and select 'Task manager' from the menu.

Alternatively, CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is a much simpler shortcut to launching Task Manager.

Here's a basic overview of task manager : http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/t...

Essentially you'll be wanting to look at the processes view and looking for processes started by the user's account that they aren't familiar with.

Do be careful ending these processes though as a lot of critical system services have very vague sounding names and ending them can cause system locks or loss of data.  

Answer 2

Using a registry cleaner can clean up your computer and then make your computer faster,Why?the reason is that there may be some registry errors and remnant,corrupt files and temp files in your computer to cause "computer slow".

Every time you install and uninstall software on your computer and surfing online you create junk in the computer registry.over time, the registry can grow to enormous proportions, especially if the various programs you've installed do not do a good job of deleting and/or updating it's Registry entries.You need to scan and clean your computer with registry cleaner to make it fast.Good Registry Cleaner will improve your computer and Internet performance dramatically!

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You can download and scan your computer for free.

Answer 3

Windows Task Manager. Access it by holding Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

If you would like to check what's sucking up your memory go to the Processes tab. It shows you the memory usage of all running programs.

To check what is the memory usage of an opened program in the Applications tab, just right click it and select Go To Process. This way you don't have to manually find the process.

Answer 4

Check http://www.pc-optimizer-pro.com

With pc optimizer pro you can safely clean, repair and optimize your computer.

It will help improve your system performance without expensive hardware upgrades.