Help with task manager

[highlander]

I would like to delete some of the processes in task manager but i dont know what some of them are, how do find which is safe and which is not. If i did delete a lot of these i take it i would get more memory, i like playing farmville in facebook but it keeps coming up low memory usage. Here is some maybe someone can tell me if these would be safe to delete i cant list them all as there are loads. what are these firefox.exe memory usage 55,112k, ashwebSv.exe mem usage 14,648,ashServ.exe mem usage 17,672 this is an example of the larger ones.

[RecQuery]

Assuming Windows XP check:

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm (http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm)

There is a complete tweaking guide here:

http://tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks1.htm

You could download http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/ also and post a log here, someone can thet tell you whats safe to turn off.

[Bobinovich]

Firefox is a/your browser while the two starting with Ash... are parts of the Avast Anti-Virus package. Ending them while you're running the PC is unlikely to do anything other than close an/your internet browser and possibly cause problems with your security (if it lets you close them at all!)

Also simply ending them is only a temporary measure - in order to clear out what's running at startup go you'll either need to use MSConfig / HijackThis / A. N. Other configuration program, or do a bit of manual registry editing (not recommended for the beginner!).

Depending on how much you've got running in the background it may also be a good idea to physically add more memory to the system and/or check your virtual memory settings to ensure they're not set too low.

[highlander]

Thank you for your help will try this out

[RecQuery]

Like I said post a Hijack This log if you need specifics.

Windows usually ships with about 70% turned on that doesn't need to be. So a lot of it is safe (and more secure) to turn off.

I've managed to get XP down to a 67 MB idle footprint with nothing running but everything still usable.