What are all these processes?

[RoamDog]

On my laptop (Thinkpad T60P with 2gb of memory), when I tried to move some folders around inside Outlook 2007 I got an error that said there was not enough memory to complete the action (the action was moving a folder with relatively few notes in it)?
So, I looked at running processes and there seemed to be more than I am used to seeing. So, I closed all the active applications and re-checked.
At this point, the application tab shows zero applications running.
But the Processes tab shows 78 running processes and a bunch of these are using 8K or memory.
What are all these things?
My desktop only has 44 running processes at start up and they seem to be taking 3-4K each rather than so many taking 7-8K.

Here is a picture (I do not know how to capture a list of the running processes other than by doing a screen capture).
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How can I tell what is really needed and what is garbage? I do have Avast AntiVirus running and have done a scan. Nothing detected.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: RoamDog
How can I tell what is really needed and what is garbage?

I've got a similar situation with my Vista HP lappy... like 85 processes, so...

I checked things out with AutoRuns: http://technet.microsoft.com/e...nternals/bb963902.aspx

...and, it turned out that I wanted to have every one of those processes running.

LoL!

A lot of them were processes - created by Toshiba - that controlled various features on my lappy. Sure, I could start 'turning things off', if you will, but then I would end up with a featureless product.

Anyway, I would suggest that you download and run AutoRuns - learn how to use it - and see what you think you can do without.

My guess is, you'll probably leave everything running, just like I did!