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Cleaning up an E1705

post #1 of 18
6/23/06 at 1:09pm
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Ok, I just got my E1705 the other day, and it's sick! However, there are ~60 processes running from start up, and I was just wondering who I could get rid of a few of them. I actually uninstalled about 10 programs that came with Dell, and I don't think the performance has been affected, but I hate seeing so many things running at once.
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post #2 of 18
6/23/06 at 1:44pm
Start--> Run type in msconfig and go to the startup tab.
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post #3 of 18
6/23/06 at 1:47pm
format it..

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread94019.html
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post #4 of 18
6/23/06 at 4:25pm
Format is your best bet as Dell's bloatware is completely removed instead of "most" of it.
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post #5 of 18
6/23/06 at 4:30pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Filippo
The best way for sure.
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post #6 of 18
6/23/06 at 6:58pm
use DOS!

a gui is just a crutch for the weaK (or a way to be able to run more than 12 command lines....depends on who you ask)
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post #7 of 18
6/23/06 at 7:36pm
format c:

I'm only running 29 processes at startup.
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post #8 of 18
6/24/06 at 1:32am
28 here. HAH!

J/K . But, seriously, reformatting is your friends. Esp. as soon as you get the computer, so that you're not worried about losing data.

If not that, the Add or Remove Programs panel is your friends. Using that, along with some judicious use of the Delete key in Explorer can fix you up pretty good too.
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post #9 of 18
6/24/06 at 2:41am
i got 31 processes running, i do not know what else to do, seriosuly, i have done it thur msconfig, aswell as services.msc!!!!!
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post #10 of 18
6/24/06 at 3:31am
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Originally Posted by plAythiNG
i got 31 processes running, i do not know what else to do, seriosuly, i have done it thur msconfig, aswell as services.msc!!!!!
Well, I always have 40 in both of my systems.
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post #11 of 18
6/24/06 at 3:38am
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ok, I went through msconfig and services.msc and disabled what I didn't like. Now I have 29 processes running INCLUDING: taskmgr.exe, aim.exe, 3 McAfee programs, and Opera.exe

This means 23 processes w/o my programs or protection.

Thanks everyone
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post #12 of 18
6/24/06 at 11:09am
AnDien.... to further improve performance DITCH MCAFEE and grab Nod32 or AVG instead. Ditch aim in favor of Miranda. no complaints about opera b/c its less of a hog than firefox
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post #13 of 18
6/24/06 at 1:27pm
c'mon, how can i get down to around 20 processes, please!!! msut remove 10 processes LOL
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post #14 of 18
6/24/06 at 1:44pm
ok, i am on 29 @ idle.... aroudn 7-8 more to go, and very hapy. i know i cannot adjsut aynthing in msconfig, cos all the icons in the system tray, are what i want open, i n eed to tweak out services.msc
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post #15 of 18
6/24/06 at 1:45pm
i remember, on my desktop, i played aroun with this, and lsot my net
and had to enabled evyeerthing again, just to ge net back on line, gave me a scare, i need sum1s personal screenshot, so i kno waht to disable etc
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post #16 of 18
6/24/06 at 2:13pm
me too i have 57 processes after reformat....YIKES! thing is i dont know what some of them are and same goes for msconfig. i dont know which is which and dont want to disable the wrong thing
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post #17 of 18
6/25/06 at 12:07pm
This is my daily configuration.
It may not be as lean as some, but it it functional.









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post #18 of 18
6/25/06 at 6:50pm
hmm, alot more of mne are disabled lol
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