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Hi All,

Which of the following IBM and non-IBM services can I safely uncheck from startup?

S3Tray2
TPHKMGR
atiptaxx
ACTray
ACWLIcon
TpkmapAp
SynTPLpr
SynTPEnH
Tp4ex
pwrmonit
BMMLREF
BatInfEx
BatLogEx
cssauth
scheduler_proxy
zlclient
ccApp
CfgWiz
ctfmon

In addition to the above, I also have one that has no name BUT checked!! The location is HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Btw, what is this service called "-quiet"?

Please advice.

Cheers and best regards,
Ranjit

Well, you could have done a selective startup with msconfig and kill the ones you don't need; if you then found you needed it, re-check back to the old image and try it again. Anyway...

If you don't use AC, you can get rid of the AC* prefix services on startup; not recommended. You can get rid of atiptaxx as that is the ATI hotkey poller and, in general, is a waste of resources considering that you probably don't use the ATI hotkeys. Do not get rid of the Syn* prefix services as those are Synaptics layers important for the proper operation of the UltraNav Trackpoint and Trackpad. You can get rid of the power monitor process set (again, not advised) if you don't use it as well as the battery loggers. The zlclient process is the Zone Labs firewall client, probably tied to some server process/hook deeper within the system processes and you should only get rid of that if you plan on not using ZoneLabs or connecting the firewall on startup and login.

Now, ccApp belongs to the Norton AntiVirus system if I recall correctly (the non-coporate product being an absolute resource hog). I would recommend getting rid of your preload/retail version of norton and either getting the corporate version or another AV product (either NOD32, AVG, AVAST, etc) as there are quite a few good free ones that don't suck up quite as many resources, especially on startup, as Norton does. CfgWiz and Ctfmon are components of NAV as well and can be eliminated *IFF* you so choose to remove NAV completely.

In addition, "-quiet" isn't a process; rather, it is a command-line argument/switch for whatever process that is. Get ProcessExplorer from SysInternals and then monitor that process. Afterwards, you can see what it is hooked to and then disable it if you so choose. Recommended action would be to go into a diagnostic startup through msconfig, setup a login image where the process doesn't start up, then reboot and see what happens. If you can work fine, include it in the standard service startup manifest.

HTH

Hi christopher_wolf,

Apart from "atiptaxx", it looks like that I need to keep all the others if I going continue using AC, NAV, ZA, and power monitor process set, right?

I do not understand "Get ProcessExplorer from SysInternals and then monitor that process" in your post. Could you please explain?

Cheers and best regards,
Ranjit

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