Well, I'm a freak when it comes to my computer. I like to keep everything fresh and clean and orderly. Usually once or twice a year I will build myself a new operating system around what I need to do. Right now I have Windows 7 on my SSD for daily use. And I have Windows XP Pro on my other hard drive for specific programs. I've been working hard to keep Windows 7 from clogging up my system. When I first installed it, it was almost 20gigs, and ran SOO many processes. I've got it down to a reasonable size on my SSD (only 32gigs, space is an issue) Anyone else keep their PC light and clean? Keep in mind my windows folder isn't too fresh, when I first installed it was a hair under 5GB. I've got 30~ processes running at idle, and only using 900~MB of memory. Pretty good IMO.
Porn ain't the problem man, it's all the ads you acidently click on while watching said porn! Haha I'm teaching my dad how to use the interwebs. He's fucked my laptop up more in 1 week than in the 1 year I've had it.
So many girls always want to fuck me in my area though! I can't resist! I taught my dad how to use an itouch, he sucks so much on the computer. Like I have to show him how to turn it off Omega369
My PC is clean and fast. Not necessarily organized but clean. I do need to rearrange my desktop though
That's just on idle. I generally load up HWMonitor, MSI Afterburner, Bandwidth monitor Pro, uTorrent, Ares, iTunes, Amplitube, and Chrome on start-up and let them sit in the background.
Easytune6, DMT, Magicdisc...my computer gets pretty busy on the regular. As for the O/S itself, it's pretty damn small.
How do you reduce the number of programs running? I unchecked everything unnecessary on the boot list, but a few processes, all called svchost, take up a fuck ton of my memory, almost a GB altogether. Physically, my PC is spotless because I dust and clean the filters every month.
Well I stripped down my operating system before I installed it. I removed a lot of windows components that I don't use or aren't needed for me. You can do your best to remove services that don't apply to you via msconfig, but I doubt you will get the same results I have. As for physically, yes my PC is spotless. I just recently ran into some trouble with my GPU so I pulled everything out of my case for cleaning and re-installation. I don't like a dirty computer.
I'll have to go through it when I get the time. I did that with my phone and it took hours so I'm assuming it'll take even longer with my PC. I like your background, porches are sick. Fucking auto direct, meant Porsches. My phone is just trolling me now...
Feel free to steal it xD And no, it shouldn't take too long to go through the list of services. Most things will be dead obvious, some other ones that are questionable, you can do a quick google.
^Careful disabling services though. You have to check the dependencies. Turning something you don't use off can cause problems with things you do use down the road. Fact is on win7 all of the stock services can be left without a problem. They're not taxing any hardware. This was not the case in xp and vista. The problem is software people install and allow them to start at boot and run in the background. That's what really slows computers down aside from fragmentation of the hdd. One of the main reasons people bring their pcs into the shop is because of this "it slow now." No shit you have all this bullshit running in the background. People need to type msconfig in the start button and hit enter, go to the startup tab and disable everything that you don't need running at startup. If you don't know what things are google it.
I'm not worried about things not running, everything I need I have, nothing more. Yes a lot of things running on startup slows down a lot of system, but you'd be surprised at the amount of services that still run even with programs disabled or removed. iTunes for instance took up 4 processes and 6 services. I have it down to 1 and 2.
I never had too much beef with it, untill they started doing some serious changes. Than one day, out of the blue, I was updated to version 11 (After specifically turning off auto-update) I got rid of it all and went back to version 10. Than I got rid of stupid iTuneshelper, Quicktime and Bonjour. Useless shit, I don't use an iPod. I just got quick time alternative instead, it's much lighter on the system. Probably cut the running size in half.
Wow man that is pretty clean. Nice work! I am averaging 90 processes at any given time on my Win7 PC at home. My computer is not really a mess but I have several programs I like to run at startup (TeamViewer, PowerISO, ScreenPresso, Citrix Receiver). I definitely haven't made the same effort you have to clean it up. The computer at work is a totally different story. The thing is a disaster because I work in IT so my laptop is constantly being used as a guinea pig for different software and patches and registry tweaks and this and that.