Q: My computer is running slow and I wonder if the 55 “processes” Windows Task Manager lists has anything to do with it. Surely I don’t need all of them. How can I determine what is needed and what is ...

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Q. When I go to my Windows XP “Task Manager” screen and look at the processes, there are usually 60 of them running. What really NEEDS to be running? How do I know what ones I should end process, and ...

Just because you've closed a window doesn't mean that Windows has killed the process. Sometimes the operating system keeps processes running in the background so that when you run a new instance, it ...