When I use my 1-year old Administrator User Account on my Windows XP Pro SP3, Task Manager shows that there are above 30 processes running. The account works very slow and many times doesn't responds. I disabled the visual styles which increased the speed, but not till a satisfactory level. I created a new administrative User account with visual styles enabled. Wow! The new account works above satisfactory level. That's because in the previous account, 7 copies of svchost.exe,1 copy of lssas.exe and crss.exe etc were running which were not running inthe new account. Can anyone help me to repair and speed up my old account ???1 person needs an answerI do too

Not really, since the processes you list are legitimate processess, and gives no details of what background programs are running

sometimes you can boot the computer in safemode and compare those running processes to those running in normal mode. however, the above is somewhat tideous but worth a try when all else fails. another thing you can do is to initiate/execute a "clean boot" a clean boot disables all thrid party programs and services that load up with the o.s. to initiate a clean boot, click on start, then run, then enter msconfig once the configuration panel is open you will see some tabs. go to the startup tab and uncheck/disable all the startups that are checked/enabled then click "apply" also you may wan't to jot down which ones were enabled. the next step is to go to the services tab. there is a check box that indicates "hide" all microsoft services, so check/enable it. the services that appear on the revised listing can be disabled. again, you may want to jot which ones were enabled and click "apply" the methods above simply disables all those programs and services that will not be loaded into memory or run by the o.s. if system performance is improved after rebooting, then it implies you have successfully disabled the likely culprit(s). now the trick for you is to figure out which programs or services should be enabled and which should remain disabled. incidentally, after rebooting the system there will be a message that informs you that the o.s. is running in diagnostic mode. in the window there will be a little check box that you can enable and it will disable the warning from poppnig up again. ------------------ lastly, be sure to make a system restore point before configuring your startups. it will be added insurance in that if something went wrong with your reconfiguration you can revert the system. ~db db`...> DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - @Hotmail.com "share the nirvana mann" - dbZen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >