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re: Useless system processes Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 10:13 pm Posted by GM (6055 messages posted) See the site at the following link for complete information of system processes and what to / what not to stop ,and how to do it properly.... Black Viper.com System Processes Page [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Useless system processes Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 2:11 am Posted by jagged ben (3536 messages posted) Definitely follow up on the link in the other reply to your post...you may also be interested in this one. http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm A number of the names you listed are ordinary windows programs: -spoolsrv is pretty necessary if you have a printer, but it should normally be taking up only a tenth of the memory you state... -the following are absolutely necessary, don't try to mess with them: winlogon, csrss, smss -these three will all stay, though adjusting services should reduce their memory load: scvhost, services, lsass -I'm not sure why you have an instance of rundll32, but its a core windows file. It could be anything from completely valid to a virus. The rest are not part of Windows, and are probably not necessary. Search your computer for them and try and find out what they are. Also search the internet to try and find out what they are. All sorts of things (ISPs and printers and scanners) install unecessary background programs that are usually a complete waste. -I don't know what these are, they seem to be a group: sPDTMONX.exe, SPEMAI~1.EXE, sPdevmonx.exe, SPDEVMONSRV.exe, sPpdpsrv.exe If they are not your anti-virus software, or required for some hardware you have...you probably don't need them running. I tried searching for a couple in Google, and got no results, which makes me pretty suspicious. These names seem quite suspicious to me: wcmdmgr.exe, atiptaxx, On Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 9:46 pm, Ryan wrote: >At any given time, I can open up task manager (I'm using XP) and find at least 25 >processes running. Looking right now, there are 30 processes.. I can only identify >the reason for 9 of them. The main energy wasters are spoolsv.exe (~38,000K) and >svchost.exe (there are usually 5 different files totaling up to ~18,000K of memory >use).There a bunch of other ones that take up between 20k and 1,800k of memory: sPDTMONX.exe, >SPEMAI~1.EXE, atiptaxx.exe, sPdevmonx.exe, SPDEVMONSRV.exe, rundll32.exe, lsass.exe, >services.exe, winlogon.exe, wcmdmgr.exe csrss.exe, smss.exe, sPpdpsrv.exe. I have >a feeling that many of these are running needlessly. Does someone here know if any >of these are in fact wasting space and how I can keep them from running? > >Thanks in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Useless system processes Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 6:10 am Posted by triplate (4621 messages posted) See GM,s post.....i have it down too 11 svc.process,s..........no problems. On Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 9:46 pm, Ryan wrote: >At any given time, I can open up task manager (I'm using XP) and find at least 25 >processes running. Looking right now, there are 30 processes.. I can only identify >the reason for 9 of them. The main energy wasters are spoolsv.exe (~38,000K) and >svchost.exe (there are usually 5 different files totaling up to ~18,000K of memory >use).There a bunch of other ones that take up between 20k and 1,800k of memory: sPDTMONX.exe, >SPEMAI~1.EXE, atiptaxx.exe, sPdevmonx.exe, SPDEVMONSRV.exe, rundll32.exe, lsass.exe, >services.exe, winlogon.exe, wcmdmgr.exe csrss.exe, smss.exe, sPpdpsrv.exe. I have >a feeling that many of these are running needlessly. Does someone here know if any >of these are in fact wasting space and how I can keep them from running? > >Thanks in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Useless system processes Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 3:21 pm Posted by Nicola (1 messages posted) Sorry for my english!If you are an ATI mainboard the ATIPTAXX.EXE is a process for the control panel or graphic acceleretor.ciao On Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 9:46 pm, Ryan wrote: >At any given time, I can open up task manager (I'm using XP) and find at least 25 >processes running. Looking right now, there are 30 processes.. I can only identify >the reason for 9 of them. The main energy wasters are spoolsv.exe (~38,000K) and >svchost.exe (there are usually 5 different files totaling up to ~18,000K of memory >use).There a bunch of other ones that take up between 20k and 1,800k of memory: sPDTMONX.exe, >SPEMAI~1.EXE, atiptaxx.exe, sPdevmonx.exe, SPDEVMONSRV.exe, rundll32.exe, lsass.exe, >services.exe, winlogon.exe, wcmdmgr.exe csrss.exe, smss.exe, sPpdpsrv.exe. I have >a feeling that many of these are running needlessly. Does someone here know if any >of these are in fact wasting space and how I can keep them from running? > >Thanks in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Useless system processes Saturday, August 2, 2003 at 6:29 am Posted by yusuf (1 messages posted) Hi, I get an error when I boot my system up that tries to use atrpuixx.enu and says it is not a recognizable application. It seems to be linked to atiptaxx.exe how do I fix this? Thanks Yusuf On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 3:21 pm, Nicola wrote: >Sorry for my english!If you are an ATI mainboard the ATIPTAXX.EXE is a process for >the control panel or graphic acceleretor.ciao > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Useless system processes Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 11:21 am Posted by Jeeves (1 messages posted) Reinstall your display driver On Saturday, August 2, 2003 at 6:29 am, yusuf wrote: >Hi, > >I get an error when I boot my system up that tries to use atrpuixx.enu and says it >is not a recognizable application. It seems to be linked to atiptaxx.exe how do I >fix this? Thanks Yusuf > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Useless system processes Thursday, November 6, 2003 at 8:07 pm Posted by Chuck (1 messages posted) The files you mention such as spdtmonx and SPEMAI~1.EXE and SpDTMONX.EXE are all from a sharp printer driver and software installaiton. Most likely for the Sharp model AJ5030 combination printer, scanner, fax and copier machine. You will need these files to run the machine. Uninstall the sharp software if you no longer use it. Hope this helps On Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 9:46 pm, Ryan wrote: >At any given time, I can open up task manager (I'm using XP) and find at least 25 >processes running. Looking right now, there are 30 processes.. I can only identify >the reason for 9 of them. The main energy wasters are spoolsv.exe (~38,000K) and >svchost.exe (there are usually 5 different files totaling up to ~18,000K of memory >use).There a bunch of other ones that take up between 20k and 1,800k of memory: sPDTMONX.exe, >SPEMAI~1.EXE, atiptaxx.exe, sPdevmonx.exe, SPDEVMONSRV.exe, rundll32.exe, lsass.exe, >services.exe, winlogon.exe, wcmdmgr.exe csrss.exe, smss.exe, sPpdpsrv.exe. I have >a feeling that many of these are running needlessly. Does someone here know if any >of these are in fact wasting space and how I can keep them from running? > >Thanks in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Useless system processes Wednesday, November 12, 2003 at 3:31 pm Posted by marc (1 messages posted) atiptaxx.exe is something to do with ATI graphics cards: atiptaxx.exe ATI Video card additional utility. Often used a lot of processor resources. Not required. was pulled from here -http://www.greatis.com/regrun3useless.htm you might also find your other listed apps here too. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Useless system processes Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at 8:03 am Posted by Cobber (1 messages posted) wcmdmgr.exe is from Wild Tangent. WT is gaming and video website. On Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 9:46 pm, Ryan wrote: >At any given time, I can open up task manager (I'm using XP) and find at least 25 >processes running. Looking right now, there are 30 processes.. I can only identify >the reason for 9 of them. The main energy wasters are spoolsv.exe (~38,000K) and >svchost.exe (there are usually 5 different files totaling up to ~18,000K of memory >use).There a bunch of other ones that take up between 20k and 1,800k of memory: sPDTMONX.exe, >SPEMAI~1.EXE, atiptaxx.exe, sPdevmonx.exe, SPDEVMONSRV.exe, rundll32.exe, lsass.exe, >services.exe, winlogon.exe, wcmdmgr.exe csrss.exe, smss.exe, sPpdpsrv.exe. I have >a feeling that many of these are running needlessly. Does someone here know if any >of these are in fact wasting space and how I can keep them from running? > >Thanks in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Useless system processes Saturday, December 6, 2003 at 10:24 am Posted by A Dingo Ate My Computer (1 messages posted) THAT SITE IS A PILE OF SHIT, DOESN'T EVEN LIST THE PROCESS IN QUESTION. IF YOU DON'T HAVE SOMETHING USEFUL TO CONTRIBUTE DON'T POST A LINK TO A WORTHLESS SITE. On Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 10:13 pm, GM wrote: >See the site at the following link for complete >information of system processes and what to / what >not to stop ,and how to do it properly.... > > >Black Viper.com System Processes Page > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Useless system processes Sunday, December 7, 2003 at 1:00 am Posted by me me me (1 messages posted) spysweeper is free, will scan and remove adware; http://www.webroot.com On Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at 8:03 am, Cobber wrote: > >wcmdmgr.exe is from Wild Tangent. WT is gaming and video website. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Useless system processes (SPPDPSRV) Sunday, March 7, 2004 at 11:11 am Posted by anonymous (1 messages posted) I found SPPDPSRV.exe on my computer and looked at it with a text editor. It appears to be a Sharp printer driver. On Saturday, January 25, 2003 at 9:46 pm, Ryan wrote: >At any given time, I can open up task manager (I'm using XP) and find at least 25 >processes running. Looking right now, there are 30 processes.. I can only identify >the reason for 9 of them. The main energy wasters are spoolsv.exe (~38,000K) and >svchost.exe (there are usually 5 different files totaling up to ~18,000K of memory >use).There a bunch of other ones that take up between 20k and 1,800k of memory: sPDTMONX.exe, >SPEMAI~1.EXE, atiptaxx.exe, sPdevmonx.exe, SPDEVMONSRV.exe, rundll32.exe, lsass.exe, >services.exe, winlogon.exe, wcmdmgr.exe csrss.exe, smss.exe, sPpdpsrv.exe. I have >a feeling that many of these are running needlessly. Does someone here know if any >of these are in fact wasting space and how I can keep them from running? > >Thanks in advance. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Useless system processes Friday, June 10, 2005 at 6:33 am Posted by Kevin (1 messages posted) take a look at www.processlibrary.com [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum