Reccomendations for eliminating extra processes

[halokid]

Its quite a burden to go through each process to see whats needed and whats not..... is there some free software that does that for you? and what about registry cleaners.. are they worth it?

[scuzzy]

My favorite registry cleaner is CCleaner and I strongly recommend it. I've used it for several years and it is among the first programs that I install.

For monitoring and controlling processes, WinPatrol is the one to beat.

[Bill]

WinPatrol certainly gathers a geat deal of information and displays it in well organized and logical groups.

I looked at Perfect Optimizer and was about to run the free scan until I glanced at the EULA.  The "free scan" is one of those programs that only 'tells' you there are problems but you must purchase the program to fix them, assuming they actually exist.  I've been down that road before with various virus scans that are in fact scams.  I choose not to endorse or use those kinds of programs.  I am not taking exception to your recommendation, only expressing an opinion.

Bill

[Bill]

OK, I will check it out.  I also don't see a price, so far.

B-

[scuzzy]

CCleaner is completely free. WinPatrol comes in free and paid flavors. The free version works great, but has a built-in lag for real-time scanning. The Plus version does not have the lag and provides additional information on processes.

[halokid]

thanks for the responses folks, i have thus far used cccleaner and winpatrol, i like them both however i favor cccleaner for its small memory footprint and obvous cleaning method.. winpatrol has alot of features it seems so im not sure how to utilize it to minimize uneed processes .

Ill try pc optimizer next and see what i come up with as well, cheers!