I'm using a Toshiba laptop with Vista. Recently it has become very slow, perhaps this is to be expected somewhat as it is a bit old. After booting up and opening Task Manager it shows over 60 processes, before I start doing anything; is this what is slowing it down? If so, which processes can I safely end?Exactly what is slow? Please define the problem in more detailOpening software (such as WORD and powerpoint) is slow. I use a 3d rendering program, and operations within it are much slower than they used to be. When playing videos (Youtube for example) it starts off fine but after a minute or so becomes "jerky".Have you run full scans with both your installed AV and MalwareBytes? If not, please do so now.I've run scans and found no problems. That's why I was wondering if the number of processes could be to blame?Open msconfig and on the General tab choose "selective startup" (uncheck all three items) and reboot. Does the problem still occur? If not, start adding items back to msconfig one or two at a time, rebooting after each change, until the problem reappears and you'll have identified the offending process. This is clearly a time consuming procedure, but it is the best WAY to determine if some process loading with the system is the cause of your problem.

After you've ISOLATED the cause, do not use msconfig to permanently disable the process. Instead, if it is a service go to START - RUN and type: services.msc (then press enter) and disable the service OR, if it a program, you can download & run a simple app such as Mike Lin's Startup Control PANEL (http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml) to enable, disable, or otherwise manage startup programs.
I took a screen shot of my task manager, to show the processes ongoing. Which of these is safe to End? Also it SAYS Processes:68 but there aren't 68 on that list. Why aren't the others showing?


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