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JohnS
08-17-2007, 02:08 PM
My computer has really slowed down over the past week. I think something large may be running in the background. I used to know how to pull up a list of running programs, but I forgot how. Can anyone enlighten me? It's Windows XP Home Edition.

mcteague
08-17-2007, 02:17 PM
Right click the task bar, in an empty space, and left click on "Task Mgr". Look at the "Applications" tab to see what is running. "Processes" will show tons of stuff and most of it should be running. If you don't have a good spyware program download and run Ad-Aware from Lavasoft. It's free and works very well.

Tim McTeague

William
08-17-2007, 03:00 PM
My computer has really slowed down over the past week. I think something large may be running in the background. I used to know how to pull up a list of running programs, but I forgot how. Can anyone enlighten me? It's Windows XP Home Edition.

Stay away from those porn site links that pop up here every morning. :no:

Then you'll be golden. ;)



William

Ahneida Ride
08-17-2007, 04:06 PM
Install PC Cillin

Great protection .... and cleans up all thoses nastys ...

ti_boi
08-17-2007, 05:00 PM
+1 on the PC cillin...only program I will use.....a lot of slow systems are caused by anti-virus programs.....cillin won't slow you down....