re: previous date/restore point Friday, September 4, 2009 at 10:33 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by ernie (126 messages posted) The restore thing worked fine. Accessing the task manager, I noticed several items under 'process On Friday, September 4, 2009 at 8:07 am, ernie wrote: >Thank you for your reply. I am familiar with the task mgr and understand that clicking on 'end process' for items not necessary that use lots of memory will make a computer faster at startup but am unsure what some mean and dont want to end a process that is a necessary one. The ones with large numbers include IEExplorer (I'm using it, though), ccapp.exe, explorer.exe, usmon.exe and svchost.exe. Which do I not need and how can I make sure those I don't need remain closed on startup? What others can I also close permanently? Thanks. > However, I was able to access the place just before safe mode where it asks if I >want to go to a restore point. I set it to go back a couple of weeks and the computer >is now doing so. After that, I will go to the task mgr and check out the percentages. > The two together hopefully will help. Thanks again. > > > Written in response to: re: previous date/restore point (ernie: Friday, September 4, 2009 at 8:07 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] previous date/restore point (ernie: Fri, Sep 4, 2009, 7:11 am) re: previous date/restore point (Ricer46: Fri, Sep 4, 2009, 7:53 am) re: previous date/restore point (ernie: Fri, Sep 4, 2009, 8:07 am) re: previous date/restore point (ernie: Fri, Sep 4, 2009, 10:33 am) re: previous date/restore point (normanw: Fri, Sep 4, 2009, 11:41 am) re: previous date/restore point (ernie: Fri, Sep 4, 2009, 12:58 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum