Is there more then the required amount of background applications running?
When you have a fresh XP running on your computer the minimum about of applications that are needed to run it is around 19 processes. To find how many processes you are running press Ctrl+Alt+Delete (Simutanulously) I’m running 23 at the moment which isn’t bad at all. Now if you find yourself running around 40 or more processes your probably going to get lag and other problems. (Depending on the OS and computer you have.) The best way to figure out what processes you need it to look up every process on google to find out what they are. Once you found out what they are you can right click on the ones that are not needed to run the computer and end them. However if you want them to not even come up in the process at all you can do this: Left click on start click on run type in msconfig and ok Click on the start up tab and it will have a list of things that runs right at the start up. Disable what you don’t need. Click on the Services tab press on the Hide All Microsoft Services box and y
