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More info?)
Thanks Mike.. Will check the noted web site..
"Mike M" wrote:
> Resources refer to two fixed size 64KB stacks used by various 16 bit
> programs and libraries to store pointers and the like. I'm not sure that
> you are going to find any utility that will tell you how much of the stack
> is used by any one process or library. Instead to solve the problem you
> need to reduce the number of running processes and only launch them as and
> when required rather than having lots of processes launching each time you
> boot your system. Similarly you need to close rather than minimise unused
> windows/applications so as to release, as far as is possible, resources
> used by the process concerned.
>
> A good place to look to for advice as to which programs need to be run at
> startup and those that can be safely disabled, is Pacman's site where he
> lists what should definitely be retained and which can be safely removed
> from the startup axis (http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm).
> Reducing such applications and only starting them when required can free
> up significant resources. Note though that before disabling any
> application that you make yourself fully aware of its purpose and
> understand what the consequences might be, if any, of disabling it at
> start up.
> --
> Mike Maltby MS-MVP
> mike.maltby@gmail.com
>
>
> ralbehar <ralbehar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there any tool/utility that I can run to determine
> > how much resources (percent of kernel) a particular process
> > is using?? I run system monitor and it just gives
> > a percentage of the total (100%) but doesnt identify
> > how much each running process is using..
> >
> > Can anybody help??
>
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