Here's the thing. At any given moment when I open my task manager in Vista, I'll have anywhere from 50-60 processes running at a time. The thing is, when I'm in the Processes tab, I can only see about 15 of them and in the Startup Configuration Utility, I don't even see that many (usually around 7 I think). Anyway, how do I view these processes and (if they don't matter) get them not to start with Vista. Thanks in advance

In message This is so annoying..... wrote:

This might be a stupid question, but did you hit the "Show processes from all users" button? Insert something clever here.

OK, that worked, thanks - now for the second question - why are multiple of a few services running if i'm the only user on this computer?!?!?
"DevilsPGD" wrote:

Which services do you see running multiple instances?
We cannot see your screen from here. :)

Ronnie Vernon Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
"This is so annoying....."

I see:
2 - avgrssvc.exe 2 - csrss.exe 11 - svchost.exe 2 - taskeng.exe
that's all the multiple ones. if anything, i really want to get svchost.exe down to one. Any help appreciated :) "Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

You will not get svchost down to 1. Svchosts contain other, usually multiple, programs. It is a way to run programs without incurring the full resource use that these programs would otherwise use (creating proceses is expensive in windows - it's where all the hard work is done so other operations are cheaper - the downside is any program crashing will take down all programs in that process.). If you want to see which programs are in any svchost right click in Process Tab and choose Go To Services. The services in that svchost will be highlighted. ] If you look at the windows program (CSRSS is the program that is Windows) should be two.
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