Windows Explorer

[TCR]

Please see memory usage as shown in the attachment (4 pages of images) and please advise me what I should do, Thank you for your help.

Sorry I forgot to do the 2nd request (performance tab) which I will do tonight and send it to you tomorrow.

If you are unable to open the attachment, please let me know. Thank you.


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[kpac]

I dont think there are any large processes running which dont have to be.
The larger ones like explorer.exe is alright because it is used often.

The rest of the processes are quite small.

[TCR]

Thanks, if you reasons any other reasons for this issue, please let me know.

[TCR]

HI,

As per your request the other info you have requested is attached. Would appreciate your help.

best regards

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[TCR]

As I receive no further guidance, I guess I have to live with it I suppose......

[Calum]

As you appear to have been abandoned I'll step in.
You have an awful lot of processes running.
I suggest that you go to start, click run, and type msconfig, then hit enter.
Now go to Startup, and check through the list of programs there.
Any that you don't know if you need, either search Google or ask here.  Do not disable any security programs.
Uncheck unneeded programs and reboot when asked.  That should free up some resources.

[TCR]

Thank you Calum for stepping in. If I uncheck unneeded programs, will I be able to use those programs if I need those later? Also for example, Itunes I don't want them to run everytime I switch on my laptop but I need it for updating my ipod say once in 2 weeks. In that case, can I uncheck that too? PLease advise.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

If you uncheck Itunes from startup, it will still work when you start the application. All your pretty much doing in MSConfig is preventing it from starting up automatically.

Also, I suggest getting CCleaner and clearing out the System's Temporary files (you can uncheck anything you don't want but keep System --> Temporary Files checked.

Also, go through the registry a few times with CCleaner.

[Calum]

You may find this thread useful - http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,22078.0.html - if you try CCleaner.

[soybean]

You may find this thread useful - http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,22078.0.html - if you try CCleaner.

That reference is a little out-dated but still helpful.  The Issues button is now named Registry. 

[Calum]

That's actually mentioned in the guide now, edited in by CBMatt.

[TCR]

I did as what you said, msconfig - start up and tried all options to disable unwanted softwares, but that hasn't resolved the issue I have. But I went into the next tab 'services' and tried disabling applications and after doing various options I found out when 'Windows image acquision' is ticked, firing up windows explorer is very slow and when I remove the tick windows explorer coming up almost instantly as how it supposed to work. I am not sure why WIA is causing problem with windows explorer. I have currently diabled windows image acquisition(WIA) and it is working fine. When I checked on Google, is says WIA is to do with digital cameras, scanners etc. My concern is if I can continue keep WIA disabled and will it cause any problems when I connect digital cameras or scanners. PLease advise what I should do......Thank you for your guidance to make me to focus into the appropriate area to resolve the issue.

[Calum]

My advice would be not to use the msconfig tool to edit service settings, as whatever you uncheck is then disabled.
Undo what you have done in msconfig and go to start - run - type services.msc and press enter.
Find WIA and set it to Manual - this way, it should only start when needed.
WIA is useful if you want to see your camera as a camera rather than a mass storage device, or if you use scanners.  It's possible to just start the service manually via services.msc if you need it.
Good luck.