Performance problems

[Strawbclock0]

So I'm guessing you're running Windows Vista then? You are running 70 processes it's just that it is one of the many parts of your system Vista took control away.

Well, yes, I am running Vista, does that mean I'm still running too many things?

 

[Luke]

well with vista that is still higher then my laptop (my laptop is running 50)

 

[Baez]

Yes it means too many are still running. Vista just hides system processes and others that it thinks aren't important for you to see.

 

[Strawbclock0]

So how many "visible" processes should I be running?

 

[Baez]

Around 20 sounds about right with Vista. The usual explorer.exe svchost.exe etc are the ones you should see.

 

[Strawbclock0]

Around 20 sounds about right with Vista. The usual explorer.exe svchost.exe etc are the ones you should see.

I don't see svchost.exe... and I have about 15 ones that I can see right now and I'm still having issues... should I just ghost this thing?

 

[Baez]

Okay well svchost is probably one of the ones Windows is hiding. I don't think you should ghost just yet. Can you post your PC specs? You can find everything out if you don't know by downloading PCWizard.

 

[Strawbclock0]

Mainboard - Dell 0XD720
Chipset- i945PM
Processor - 1.73 gigahertz Intep Pentium Duel core
RAM - 2046

 

[Baez]

Is it integrated video or do you have a video card? Your video card could be what's slowing your games. Are you sure that frequency is right for your CPU? I'm not sure if there is a Pentium D that runs at 1.73GHz. Or do you mean Core 2 and not Pentium?

 

[Strawbclock0]

I've always had this video card and it worked for every game in the past, It's an ATI 1400, (sucks I know). It worked for WoW, oblivion, basically all the games I have on my PC currently

Here's what it says straight from Dxdiag, Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2080 @ 1.73GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.7 GHz