When I open the Task Manager what are the only 'processes' that are to be running? I'm using Windows XP Professional SP2 if it matters. Thank you.

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Depends what applications and services you have installed and running. That's a bit of a "how long is a piece of string" question.

For example, if you have Alcohol 120% installed on your machine, you may see a process called "StarWindService.exe" running (even though the application itself isn't running).

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On a fresh install of XP Pro, again depending on the vendor, you should see between 27 and 35 processes running. if you have 50 - 60 running, you should start pulling back.

First check your msconfig (start menu - run - msconfig) and a good portion of your processes will match what's in there, and give you a directory location. if you don't know what the process ccapp is, you can see from your msconfig that its norton related, and so on....

anything that doesn't have a listing in msconfig, or looks like randomly strungs together characters, try google. generally the first 5 or so results will be pages that tell you what each process is.

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Appreciate it.

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