I’ve lowered my processes down to 47 by turning off several unused programs. (login keyboardsurrogate, icmsvr.exe, dialkey and others.) The basic commit of hard drive resources is 300mb and the cpu usage is down to 2% with an unloaded machine. I am running AVG free in the low resource mode which uses 1.5mb total.

Jay

Out of the box, the i7210 was pretty clean.

As I said in the post, i’m going to try to get something together about making the R2H more efficient. I’m no Windows uber-expert (more hardware and Linux i’m afraid) but I have a good idea of where to start.

Programs like Spybot and Nod32 will help.

Regards
Steve.

Hi Steve

You said that you’d optimised your machine to reduce the number of processes running. Any chance that you could make a bit of a tutorial explaining how you do that? Perhaps your list of essential processes? My Q1 has over 70 running and I hardly know where to begin in trimming that down.

Thanks

NOD32 is highly rated and good on resources