there are programs running that don't show up in task manager. how do I find them and stop them from running
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What program is it? Try right clicking it in the taskbar and looking for "properties" or something similar... lots of times there's a box you can uncheck to disable starting up when windows starts.\n\nAlternately, goto the start menu and hit "Run..." type msconfig and hit enter.... Hit the last tab called startup and look in there for the name of the program and uncheck it, and it wont startup again. You may have to expand the column that tells the location of the file on the system to figure out what those processes are for, because sometimes the names can be a little vague.\n\nHope that helps.
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Go to desk top and find add and delete programs and delete it it may show up as notifier....delete that Good luck
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there are a number of methods to stop those,\n1) go to start --> run --> type in msconfig.\nthen you can remove the start up items, and also you can remove the autoexec and config files from there.\n2) empty the start up folder. in programe files.\n3) the taskbar has some there, you can remove it from there.
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Click on "Start"\nClick on "Run"\ntype "msconfig"\n\nIt will show you all the programs that start when you turn on your computer.  Click the tab on the far right. You can choose which ones to disable.
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Go to the control panel and then add/remove programs and remove it. Hope that helps!
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try removing the programs by using the uninstall utility that came along with the program and not from Add/remove programs.. then u can use some registry cleaner to remove and leftover entries in the registry.
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Sometimes the dregs of programs remain after you have removed them with add/remove. Now do the manual search like you have been. If the only thing that comes up is the icon try dragging it into your recycle bin or right click and delete. \n\nGo to your desk top, right click my computer, explore and go through the Program Files in Local disk and Program files under everyone elses accounts if there are other users on your computer. If you find the program you want to get rid of, right click and delete.\n\nThen go to desktop Start, Programs and look in there for the unwanted program. If you find it either drag into the recycle bin or right click and delete. \n\nIf you have a program such as System Mechanic it will search for any broken shortcuts and you can then deleted them. \n\nYou can also try deleting it in Safe Mode. When the computer is first turned on hold down the F8 key for a few moments and select Safe mode to start up in. A lot of maintenence can be done from there. Good luck
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Some solutions to this may be:\n1) Start > Administrative Tools > Services > set some of the non-essential services to > Manual.\nIf the "System Administrative Tools" is not shown in All Programs or the Start menu, you can find it in the Control panel.\n\n2) Start > Run > type "msconfig" in the box > OK > click on the Startup tab > uncheck any programs that are not essential.\n\n3) You may have to many programs installed > Unistall the programs that are not used.
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Go to the control pannel and go to add remove programs there you can remove it.  IF not you have to stop the service that is running it.  Hit control+alt+delete click on the process tab find the process and end it then you can delete the files.  Or click start>run> type in MSCONFIG then click on the startup tab on the right and uncheck the programs you don't want to start up this will help out too.
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I had this and I think I went into Windows, then System 32, and selected Taskmgr and clicked on Run and that brought it back. Hope this helped.
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go to RUN .. type MSCONFIG and then go to start up\nand disable the things that U don't want , but be careful do not disable things that belong to the system files
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If you want to see if there are any suspicious processes, download Process Explorer. Task manager does not give a description of what the processes are. Process Explorer even gives you an option when you righ-click on a process to google it to find out more info on that process.
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Even if you click exit on them, they will return because most of them are automatically starting up. If you need the program running, most will have a "hide taskbar icon" somewhere in the preferences. Also, look for something like "automatically  startup with windows".\n\nYou can download a free utility called Winpatrol at http://www.winpatrol.com where you can disable various startups from hidden places on your computer.
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That depends on the process. Some of the processes are from the OS and there for won't show up in the system tray. \nhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/310578/EN-US/#top
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Also you may try and do this:\n\nStart > Run \nType in MSCONFIG\nGo to Startup, and uncheck the programs on start up (I find that helps)\n\nAlso in the right corner on the tasbar I Disable/Exit a few of those programs - running in the background
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proberly to many programs running in the background, eg if u have more than 10 icons near the clock on the right hand corner. \nu need to remove some of them from the startup options.\nalso do a scandisk, defrag, diskcleanup etc.. \nuninstall some programs u dont use etc