Just to be on the safe side.......

robbyrobby Olympia, WA New
edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
Anybody see anything unusual or unnecesary?

Comments

  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited March 2004
    the eyeball?!

    Are you having problems with your comp?
  • robbyrobby Olympia, WA New
    edited March 2004
    ginipig wrote:
    the eyeball?!

    Are you having problems with your comp?

    Nah, lol just checking if anyone saw some tasks running that might be not needed for general use.
  • NecropolisNecropolis Hawarden, Wales Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Moved thread to software :)
  • madmatmadmat
    edited March 2004
    nope, that looks about typical for XP.
  • robbyrobby Olympia, WA New
    edited March 2004
    Thanks, sorry about the mis-post, necro.
  • NecropolisNecropolis Hawarden, Wales Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    robby wrote:
    Thanks, sorry about the mis-post, necro.

    Hey, dont worry about it. Thats why they give us the permissions to do things like this (well that and stealth edit peoples posts ;) )
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited March 2004
    Yep, looks good to me.

    Dexter...
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited March 2004
    What is alg.exe and ZipToA.exe by chance. Might be nothing, I just dont recogize them.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited March 2004
    I've always wondered why XP has like a bazillion copies of "svchost.exe" running at once. What the hell is it, and why are there so many of them?
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited March 2004
    im with geeky on that one, svchost... reminds me of starcraft

    im so addicted to that game... lol

    :crazy:
  • JBJB Carlsbad, CA
    edited March 2004
    alg is ok...thats the built in firewall. ZipToA and NOPDB look suspect
  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited March 2004
    service host, it runs all the fun stuff that keeps the computer running, like the network, the storage subsystem/memory management, and all the good stuff that hides under everything. run "%SystemRoot%\system32\services.msc /s" to see the services you're running. that's what this little program runs

    so far as i can tell, each svchost.exe itteration runs different aspects of the low level system
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    Radeon_Man wrote:
    alg is ok...thats the built in firewall. ZipToA and NOPDB look suspect

    NOPDB is valid.

    Link:
    http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/nopdb/
    Basically, part of Norton Speed Disk

    ZiptoA is valid if you have an Iomega Zip drive, but please get recent Iomegaware for Win2K or XP, as appropriate. Looks like versions 2.8 and earlier do not like Win2K even, versions 3.1+ possible for use.

    John D.
  • DexterDexter Vancouver, BC Canada
    edited March 2004
    ZipToA is an Iomega Zip service. It is an ATAPI driver that allows the computer BIOS to see the Zip ATAPI drive as a floppy drive.


    Dexter...
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