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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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Tricky, especially is you have certain stuff.... 36 ain't too bad -I'm high 20's with a quickish (old) PC (with 2GB ram on XP) with Zone Alarm Security Suite that takes at least 5 or 6 of these....., but the lappy is running 60 odd things on Vista..FFS....Dell this and that....doesn't matter really.......it's the kids machine.... (was free with internet deal, and it has been fab....)
nigelnorris
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It's extremely unlikely that running processes are affecting your internet speed. These only start to have an effect if you are low on resources in the first place (memory or CPU), and if this is the issue you're not going to fix it just by shutting a few background services down.
You don't say what OS you are using, but the answer to which can be safely shut down will depend on that.
You don't say what OS you are using, but the answer to which can be safely shut down will depend on that.
Ghost Donkey
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I'll second what nigelnorris said.
Speaking for myself running processes won't slow your download speed unless the machine is being worked hard. We had a student turn up at work who couldn't install a webcam as the installation kept timing out. Her CPU was running at 100% idling. Turned out she was having problems runningeverything. We turned off aero and glass and it was down to 2-4% CPU usage idling.
If you have reason to believe you have a problem you could do a CTRL+ALT+DEL and look at the performance tab in task manager rather than services running you will see your CPU usage and the networking tab will show you your network utilization. Admittedly the network one isn't great for home use as your internet connection won't be anywhere near the capability of your network adaptor. Microsoft process monitor (free download from microsoft) will show you everything but you'll end up with tens of thousands of processes being logged over a few seconds which wil be of no use really.
Speaking for myself running processes won't slow your download speed unless the machine is being worked hard. We had a student turn up at work who couldn't install a webcam as the installation kept timing out. Her CPU was running at 100% idling. Turned out she was having problems runningeverything. We turned off aero and glass and it was down to 2-4% CPU usage idling.
If you have reason to believe you have a problem you could do a CTRL+ALT+DEL and look at the performance tab in task manager rather than services running you will see your CPU usage and the networking tab will show you your network utilization. Admittedly the network one isn't great for home use as your internet connection won't be anywhere near the capability of your network adaptor. Microsoft process monitor (free download from microsoft) will show you everything but you'll end up with tens of thousands of processes being logged over a few seconds which wil be of no use really.
It could be affecting Youtube - well, the Adobe Flash player plugin that drives it!
It all depends on whether it's the downloading that's affected (broadband speed), or the viewing (processing speed). Which of these applies best?:
1) The videos take ages to download and the player position tab on the progress bar is always catching up with the downloaded position. Apart from this, the video and audio runs smoothly.
or
2) The downloads work quickly and the progress bar fills up nicely, but the video and audio is jerking or stopping / starting and the videos don't run smoothly.
Cheers,
Shaun
PS. Could you post the spec of your machine and what OS you're using?
It all depends on whether it's the downloading that's affected (broadband speed), or the viewing (processing speed). Which of these applies best?:
1) The videos take ages to download and the player position tab on the progress bar is always catching up with the downloaded position. Apart from this, the video and audio runs smoothly.
or
2) The downloads work quickly and the progress bar fills up nicely, but the video and audio is jerking or stopping / starting and the videos don't run smoothly.
Cheers,
Shaun
PS. Could you post the spec of your machine and what OS you're using?
