Hello, can you give us a more detailed list of what we can disable and why..
or do you know of some resource online?
I have tried various configurations of these tasks.. but I would like to
compare with what other people are doing
thanks
"Jon" <Email_Address@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "JethroUK©" <reply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>I have desktop PC and only one monitor and I can't see why i need to run
>>it *ever* and yet this task is in my scheduler programmed to run every
>>time anyone logs on - and it's been running now for 17 hours
>>continuous????
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>> Do i need this task to run?
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>> There seems to be dozens of these 'apparently' unnecessary tasks being
>> performed - e.g. 'mcupdate' checks for media centre updates (which i
>> never use) - even if i did a check once per month would be sufficient -
>> but this is scheduled to run every - single - day
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>> does this explain why i don't have enough processing power left to open
>> an explorer window in under 20 seconds despite having 4 times the power
>> of my ol XP machine?
>>
>> Are there any tasks known to be useless that i can disable? and hopefully
>> speed up my machine
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> You can disable the majority of the tasks in there, without any major
> issues. The subfolder in which they're located gives a good indication of
> which programs they're connected to. If you don't use multiple monitors or
> Media Center, then sure, disable them.
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> Jon
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