Comments on: An introduction to the Windows XP Task Manager: Processes, Programs, and Performance – Part 2

By: JoC

JoC — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:54:06 +0000

I do not have a system idle process…why might this be? (Windows XP)

By: ICYJun

ICYJun — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:01:45 +0000

Thank you Itchy u helped me alot!!! THANKS!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:16:54 +0000

in regard to Alex’s above post, what if the same problem is happening on an XP box? I don’t think you can uninstall terminal services from that can you?

By: Allen Pegg

Allen Pegg — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:30:04 +0000

Upon powering up, my computer constantly “runs” something in the background. Going into Task Manager, under PROCESSES, “Idle Process” runs sometimes for about an hour before it stops. During this background run, my computer is extremely slow to execute – very frustrating. Can this be fixed?

Thx…

By: Arka

Arka — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:16:20 +0000

Nice Article. It really helped me to increase some performance of my games. Very nice post. Thank You

By: Cybersupam

Cybersupam — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:37:29 +0000

Thanks for posting this article. Without doubt to say, it really taught me many facts about processes and task manager-the most useful program in windows.

By: akishore

akishore — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:55:29 +0000

Hi Alex,

You can try to re-install Terminal Services by going to Add/Remove Programs and clicking on Windows Components. Looks like there is some problem with the registry keys, etc.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:32:52 +0000

@Itchy: When I tried to start Terminal Services got an error:

“The Terminal Services service on local computer started and stopped. Some services stop automaticaly if they have no work to do.”

What can I do?

By: sajamd

sajamd — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 06:40:06 +0000

VERY HELPFUL ARTICLE.LIKED YOUR HELP ON ‘SET AFFINITY’ OPTION.I MOSTLY PLAY GAMES ON MY LAPTOP BUT I HAVE INTEGRATED GRAPFIK CARD & I HOPE MODIFYING THE AFFINITY OF CERTAIN BACKGROUND SOFTWARES WILL HELP INCREASE MY PC’S CPU PERFORMANCE.I WAS HAPPY TO SEE THAT WIN XP GAVE US THIS COOL SETTING BUT WAS SCARED TO USE THIS FEATURE THINKING IT MIGHT HARM MY PC IN SOME WAY.GOOD ARTICLE.

By: Itchy

Itchy — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:57:30 +0000

[quote]I open “Task Manager” and under the “User Name” column is nothing, absolutely nothing, only “System Idle Process” is assigned a User Name “System”[/quote]

* Click Start, Run and type Services.msc
* Locate Terminal Services and double-click it
* Set the Startup type to Automatic, and click Apply
* Click the Start button to launch the service manually.
* Now Task Manager User Name field will show up.

By: Richard FDisk

Richard FDisk — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:56:29 +0000

I know I’m not the only one that this has happened to:

I open “Task Manager” and under the “User Name” column is nothing, absolutely nothing, only “System Idle Process” is assigned a User Name “System”

can you elaborate on how to correct this problem, I do know it has to do with certain windows “services”

Though I’m trying to keep my machine as slim as possible including stopping most of the “services” related to internet / networking etc. the machine is a “Stand alone” w/XP pro sp2 and not conected to anything, the internal LAN is disabled, and there’s no modem either, and I have no intention of ever “connecting” it either.
I had a horrendous time trying to get rid of “(in)Security Center and Firewall” because I don’t need them, and don’t want them.

I’ve seen on forums and other types of boards, some other people who are “connected” that have mentioned this problem about not having any “user name” in the “user name” column and no matter when or what process / program get’s started nothing ever shows up there?
which if no user name is displayed could be masking a security risk like a VNC connection monitoring them.

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