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My Windows XP has couple of problems

by sirish79 Feb 6, 2009 8:31PM PST

1.Booting takes long time.I don't Know whether i am impatient but it definitely takes longer time.

2.Audio always experiences some disturbances.

3.Multitasking Issue.When I open my Audio and open any other program
my audio gets disturbed.

4.How do identify Background processes disturbing my system.

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Re: background processes

by Kees Bakker Feb 7, 2009 12:17AM PST

1. See what's run at startup using the startup tab of msconfig (start>run>msconfig).
2. See what's running using task manager (ctrl-alt-del, processes tab, sort on cpu descending). System idle 99% means system is doing nothing 99% of the time.

Kees

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What is it?

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Feb 7, 2009 4:13AM PST

No make or model so I wonder if this will help -> Read http://winhlp.com/node/10

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