Please help me clean out this stuff. My PC is overloaded I guess...
But I don't know what to remove and what not, I want to keep using my PC as now... thanks

suggest you remove all the programs that you rarely use. They may be good programs but if you don't use hem, what is the point in keeping them. I did that for my PC

But, what is "svchost" and stuff? many things I don't know, I only let AVG and messenger start up...

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Originally posted by Exca
But, what is "svchost" and stuff? many things I don't know, I only let AVG and messenger start up...

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svchost is the Windows Service Host - it's used to "host" any running services you may be using. I wouldn't recommend ending it directly, use services.msc to disable unneeded services.

(You can also use Sysinternals [now owned by Microsoft] Process Explorer to see which services are running under which process).

Most of those are launcehd at startup and are pretty useless, such as jusched.exe which is the Java Update Scheduler, acrotray which must be used for Adobe Acrobat, etc.

You'll need to use msconfig or similar to temporarily disable certain startup tasks and see what breaks. It's unlikely to get you into a situation where the PC won't boot doing this - you can't disable necessary MS stuff from it. [Unless you play with boot.ini, don't do that]

Go into Run> type 'msconfig'>click startup. Review all of them. Then click Services and review all them.

or you could just, you know, leave it be...

the number of running processes really has nothing to do with anything

Well I went in msconfig and clicked about everything except windows out

I'm left with 46 processes now instead of 76...
My computer goes much faster now...

If you don't know what a process is, google it, then you can decide if you need it or not