DVA797
Captain, B777-200
Joined on August 19 2002
Century Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Southeastern United States
111 legs, 283.8 hours
45 legs,
118.8 hours online 61 legs,
102.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 09 2009 10:52 ET by Robert Miller
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DVA6920
Senior Captain, MD-11
E-MAIL
Joined on January 24 2009
Century Club
"Another day in the office..." Parker, CO USA
163 legs, 828.1 hours
28 legs,
44.1 hours online 162 legs,
816.9 hours ACARS 5 legs,
9.0 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
November 09 2009 11:20 ET by Tom Sanders
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What you can do is a google search of that process and it will tell you what it is for. You can also change what programs your computer runs on startup, using msconfig. Its not real technical but if you are not sure how to do it, I probably wouldn't.
To help your computer, go through your add/remove programs and take off anything you don't use anymore, you will be surprised all the stuff you find there
Tom SandersSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM
Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
"De oppresso liber" Surry, ME
1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs,
767.8 hours online 1,107 legs,
1,674.5 hours ACARS 55 legs,
114.8 hours event 195 legs dispatched, 134.4
hours
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Posted onPost created on
November 09 2009 12:09 ET by Andrew Kaufmann
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DVA7338
Captain, B747-400
E-MAIL
Joined on May 17 2009
"Thou shalt maintain thy airspeed." Faridabad, Haryana India
60 legs, 151.3 hours
49 legs,
135.1 hours online 58 legs,
145.2 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
November 10 2009 00:58 ET by Gurmeet Arora
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Before you go any further with this post, please go through Andrew's links thoroughly and your first level question will be answered on the spot.
Then the best guide to your question is "ask yourself".
Go to Services.msc and change from "Automatic" to "Manual" what you don't need. Most of the names are descriptive enough. If in doubt, ask google.
You should get a sizable savings out of that.
Then use "Process Explorer" and pick each process one by one. Do a google (if the names aren't descriptive enough) and if people around you are not needing it, chances are you won't either. Kill them and look for any sign of instability or functionality loss (like your wireless stops working). Restart the system and don't touch that. Move to the next.
Every individual needs are different and also his machine. So the best way is to go one by one and "asking yourself" (and search engines, of course)
There are a few I can talk straightaway like ctfmon.exe, everything Symantec or Norton, Image Acquisition service etc., but beyond these your system is unique to you.
May be, if you can post the results of "tasklist /svc" (run in a command window) and post a snapshot of Services.msc, we can point out the most obvious ones straightaway.
Gurmeet
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