[duckmoose]

I have an HP machine with a 3800+ AMD Athlon 64 and a 7800 GT vid card, along with 1 Gig RAM. However, I have about 40 background processes running AT BEST. If I really work at it I may be able to get it down to 35. But there are so many things running that I can't close because they are supposedly crucial system apps and I wonder if it's because of the whole Hewlett Packard thing.

Does anyone have any tips on this as I am under the impression that for best gaming performance I should have at highest 20-25 background apps going.

[Osiris]

the only apps you need running is your antivirus and firewall if you have one....

[duckmoose]

Was it not clear that the majority of said apps cannot be closed by me? It says either that they are crucial to the computer running or that I don't have the authority to do so.

[talldude123]

go to run -> type "msconfig", remove any unneccessary startup items, and reboot.

[duckmoose]

Actually, most of the items are not listed in the startup selection of msconfig, and after d/ling Enditall2 and looking at the descriptions for most of the processes that are un-endable, it appears that my Norton protection is accountable for a large swathe of them. Oh well.

[Osiris]

post a screen shot