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Jun 17^th, 2007 at 7:55pm

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In the Task Manager i see some stuff that really take up memory. Here are some of them. svehost.exe CCAPP.EXE msmsgs.exe What are they and can i end those processes? What effects will there be when i end it.

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Reply #1 - Jun 17^th, 2007 at 11:28pm

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a1,

I have found this website quite useful for finding out about processes.

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Reply #2 - Jun 17^th, 2007 at 11:30pm

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a1 wrote on Jun 17^th, 2007 at 7:55pm:

CCAPP.EXE

Yep... that's Norton Anti-Virus eating all your RAM memory. Grin

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Reply #3 - Jun 18^th, 2007 at 12:40am

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so what do I do? I need Norton. Huh

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Reply #4 - Jun 18^th, 2007 at 1:10am

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Really? I have gotten by for years without it.

How much RAM is is using?

If RAM is a problem you could just turn it off for gaming. I leave Avast on because it doesn't use much RAM and it isn't worth the trouble to turn it off.

Another possibility - switch to a better AV program.

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Reply #5 - Jun 18^th, 2007 at 5:01pm

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SVEHOST is a system process I think msmsgs.exe looks like windows messenger (The ancient MSN that comes with windows) Just go to run, type in msconfig and disable it so you'll never have to worry about it again, and ditch the Norton, get something like AVG and turn it 100% off and fire it up ONLY to scan, obviously when not gaming, This is what I do, Works well, I haven't had a virus in at least 5 months.

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Reply #6 - Jun 18^th, 2007 at 6:21pm

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Can anyone tell me all the things that I don't need? Seems like I have so much junk running. Roll Eyes

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Reply #7 - Jun 18^th, 2007 at 6:31pm

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I also found another one of those memory eatting things. svchost.exe Please tell me why I have so many things that eat my memory.

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Reply #8 - Jun 18^th, 2007 at 9:23pm

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Gunny04 wrote on Jun 18^th, 2007 at 5:01pm:

SVEHOST is a system process I think msmsgs.exe looks like windows messenger (The ancient MSN that comes with windows) Just go to run, type in msconfig and disable it so you'll never have to worry about it again, and ditch the Norton, get something like AVG and turn it 100% off and fire it up ONLY to scan, obviously when not gaming, This is what I do, Works well, I haven't had a virus in at least 5 months.

Gunny

In my humble opinion not having a virus in the last 5 months isn't great record. I thought the idea of anti virus was supposed to prevent you from getting viruses in the first place, not to remove them should they pop up because it's been switched off.
I use to have Norton but ditched it for Kaspersky Internet Security. This seems to be fine, and doesn't eat away at performance, even when doing a full system scan.

a1 wrote on Jun 18^th, 2007 at 6:31pm:

I also found another one of those memory eatting things. svchost.exe Please tell me why I have so many things that eat my memory.

Try this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056

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Reply #9 - Jun 19^th, 2007 at 1:25am

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svchost.exe are background services grouped into one. Disable them by going start--->run--->services.msc. I do not know what SVEHOST.exe is.

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Reply #10 - Jun 19^th, 2007 at 7:19pm

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so disabling Svchost.exe has no effect on the system? Huh

I am really scared at all of this stuff. Embarrassed

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Reply #11 - Jun 19^th, 2007 at 10:52pm

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No, don't disable scvhost. I forget exactly what it does, but I remember closing it on my comp once. The result wasn't good, but I forget what exactly stop working.

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Reply #12 - Jun 20^th, 2007 at 11:32am

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svchost.exe is a network connection used to connect to LAN networks and the internet.
Disabling it whilst playing games should be fine (Thats what I do), but whenever I connect to the home network, it starts up again, so I guess it is needed.

Also svehost.exe seems like some virus name, as it is closley named to svchost.exe (viruses like to name themselves like windows files Wink

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I'd google svehost.exe, and try to locate the file and scan it with a GOOD antivirus (e.g. not Norton Grin

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Also, don't go round randomly ending proccesses, that can have disastirous effects Shocked

msmsgs.exe is the proccess for windows messenger, which starts automatically upon each logon by defualt. To disable to go
>Start Menu
>Run
>msconfig
>Startup Tab
>Find msmsgs.exe and uncheck.

Also, disable any onther startup proccesses, they really eat memory sometimes Sad

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Reply #13 - Jun 20^th, 2007 at 11:39am

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THIS IS ALL THAT NEEDS TO BE DISABLED IN SERVICES:

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=FSX;action=display;num=116...

Assuming you are not running an older DELL computer and ARE using an original WindowsXP SP2 disk, (not something provided by DELL or HP) follow that LIST TO THE LETTER, including the purchase of O&O Defrag

leave the rest of the services ALONE and make SURE the startup system is not loading a bunch of crap unneeded software like REALPLAYER and other garbage

GET RID OF NORTON AND ALL ITS SUPPORTING SOFTWARE. USE AVG, NOD32 OR AVAST

Once Norton is installed, its very hard to get rid of the damage that software really does to Windows. Many find it best to do a complete drive wipe reinstall (NOT A REPAIR) of the OS to get rid of that garbage spyware AV

System Restore is the LARGEST resource hog in Windows. If you can live without it, SHUT IT DOWN as my list provides. If you cant live without it, you just have to live with the resources it sucks up.

LEAVE SERVICES ALONE, DONT MESS WITH THAT

Startup programs are different and that is an area you need to make sure is clean

NOTE: AVG USERS.. FSX is having problems with AVG. Make sure AVG is SHUT DOWN before running FSX. FS9 is not affected by AVG

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