WiZiD Posted March 11, 2011 Member ID: 804 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 7, 2020 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Running processes can significantly impact the performance of your PC, especially if they are malicious or capturing information about your computer usage without your knowledge. Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to bring up your Task Manager and click on the Processes tab. If any of the running processes do not look familiar to you, look them up in our library. http://pcpitstop.com/libraries/process/? I thought this may help some folks........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
BHzD_WHY Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 1425 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 154 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 8 Achievement Points: 850 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/18/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 26, 2023 Birthday: 02/07/1969 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Good Advice and nice find. If you want to know more of "Whats Running" you can check these out. http://www.whatsrunning.net/ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueKill Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 1588 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 7 Topic Count: 84 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 904 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 139 Achievement Points: 5532 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 07/19/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 1, 2023 Birthday: 08/25/1966 Share Posted March 12, 2011 That always scares me to fuck around with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Noears711XI Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 189 Topic Count: 75 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2162 Content Per Day: 0.40 Reputation: 1940 Achievement Points: 19609 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 8, 2022 Birthday: 07/09/1957 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Thanks for the info will check it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Damage_inc- Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 2048 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 294 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 6689 Content Per Day: 1.36 Reputation: 4709 Achievement Points: 48999 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 12/15/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2023 Birthday: 05/30/1967 Device: Windows Share Posted March 12, 2011 pc pitstop used to kick ass now u download there shit and they ask u to purchase it.b4 it would really help u out,they sold out.bahhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Arcanage Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 704 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 4 Topic Count: 13 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 314 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 3 Achievement Points: 1712 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/07/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 17, 2014 Birthday: 01/05/1989 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Good tips Wizid! Thanks for the link as well; some of the weird names worried me but I now I can make sure they are harmless haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Yoda Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 934 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 19 Topic Count: 131 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 832 Content Per Day: 0.16 Reputation: 137 Achievement Points: 5656 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 19, 2014 Birthday: 08/16/1960 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Be sure to check the file size!!!!! Some nasties infect valid files causing them to become bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoeBetta Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 1608 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 7 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 411 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 11 Achievement Points: 2639 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/24/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 30 Birthday: 11/12/1968 Device: Windows Share Posted March 12, 2011 I use gamebooster when i play games, it shuts down processes that are not needed. http://download.cnet.com/Game-Booster/3000-18512_4-10913645.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Belle Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 503 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 181 Topic Count: 71 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2461 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 1213 Achievement Points: 15555 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 7 Device: Windows Share Posted March 12, 2011 RogueKill That always scares me to fuck around with that. You really can't mess anything up Rougekill, just restart your computer if you shut something down that you need. I haven't been over to pc pitstop for awhile, that's too bad if they've changed - used to be a wonderful website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
KenMan Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 410 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 4 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2033 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 428 Achievement Points: 10669 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/16/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 15, 2020 Birthday: 12/04/1948 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Thanks for the tip WiZiD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Labob Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8281 Content Per Day: 1.54 Reputation: 5997 Achievement Points: 53726 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Android Share Posted March 12, 2011 If your willing to read and follow this is the only site I recomend. I trust them and they have changed very little over the last decade or so. http://www.sysinfo.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Labob Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8281 Content Per Day: 1.54 Reputation: 5997 Achievement Points: 53726 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Android Share Posted March 12, 2011 I have to wonder if this site is becoming more important then my real world ? Any way was just going outa the door and I remembered this little program. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/sysinternals/bb896653 Now I'm gone fpr a few days I think there's something to be said for no internet access. Wonder if there's a detox XI pill ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Labob Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8281 Content Per Day: 1.54 Reputation: 5997 Achievement Points: 53726 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Android Share Posted March 12, 2011 Damm still here hey Phanton is it possible to have the links on our site open in a new window. (sorry for stealing your post here) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
USAPLISKEN Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 1634 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 26 Topic Count: 210 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1634 Content Per Day: 0.32 Reputation: 370 Achievement Points: 12427 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/03/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 28, 2016 Birthday: 04/19/1949 Share Posted March 12, 2011 MoeBetta I use gamebooster when i play games, it shuts down processes that are not needed. http://download.cnet.com/Game-Booster/3000-18512_4-10913645.html I got this downloaded and it helped my PC allot I did by the premium version 9.95 year thanks for the tip. My gun has bullets now LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavey Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Warning!!! Many malware can spoof themselves as legit processes. An exmaple is svchost.exe. I know some people will go, "fuck I have loads of those running!!!" That's normal. However I know of one Trojan that spoofs itself as svchost.exe. What I'm saying, is that there is no substitute to a good (yes pay for it) Internet Security Suite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickTheGrip Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Share Posted March 12, 2011 My company laptop has Microsoft Security Essentials running on it. Being Microsoft, of course it is a huge system hog, so I wouldn't recommend adopting it for a gaming rig I get Norton Internet Security FREE from Comcast for up to 10 computers in the house and to be honest it does the job. It has found a lot of attacks when I decide to look at some less than salubrious websites like, for example Pirate Bay (What, I was shopping for an eye patch - thought it was a shopping site - really) I do know that Comcast dropped their free McAfee product because it sucked ass - I tend to agree, it didn't seemed to stop anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
SCooBY>XI< Posted March 12, 2011 Member ID: 3233 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 15 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 334 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 40 Achievement Points: 2030 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/23/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 28, 2013 Birthday: 04/09/1967 Share Posted March 12, 2011 We use PCPitstop optimize for our network (6 computers ) along with diskeeper pro on all our drives ---have not found anything better at keeping my machines free of fragmentation and at their best for gaming . only snag we have experienced was with optimize resetting what the killer nic card changed back to default settings every time we ran our weekly scan--tech support at pcpitstop worked with me to resolve the issue and it has now become integrated into their product for those that use a killer nic card for gaming (eg.. a card that optimizes windows packeting and prioritation processes for gaming ) Prices for both fit easily into our monthly gaming budgets and honestly I would not be comfortable not using them on all my systems after being successful with them for so long ... When I assist others with optimizing their rigs for gaming dominance (or at least the machine part of it ) these programs are passed along as some of the tools to be at your best in whatever game you choose to play . although optimize will shutdown all non essential background services --remember this is also a feature of windows7 now --- goto startup and type in performance options ---select performance (eg.. gaming )/restart your machine and windows will take many of the startup processes out of the lineup until you select a different option ---may be an option for those on a limited budget. SCooBY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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