Topic: What is too much to be running in the background?

[waltflanagansdog]

I am having issues lately with laptop recording, and I am curious if I am running too much in the background.  Here's what I have:

Under the CPU tab, Processes tab, in  Task manager:
System Idle Process: 99

I have been getting weird levels during recording and I am wondering if I am running too much.

Thanks for ANY help.

[jpschust]

it all depends on your processor, ram, virtual memory and OS.  if im transfering i tend to do very little- occasionally i will chat on AIM or sometimes I will browse the net, but i try to keep it to a minimum.

[Brian Skalinder]

I am having issues lately with laptop recording, and I am curious if I am running too much in the background.  Here's what I have:

Under the CPU tab, Processes tab, in  Task manager:
System Idle Process: 99

I have been getting weird levels during recording and I am wondering if I am running too much.

Thanks for ANY help.

Don't sweat the System Idle Process.  It's the other processes that may be causing your problems.

[waltflanagansdog]

My Ad-Aware says I have 23 Running Processes:

System Idle Process
IEXPLORE.exe
Mcshield.exe
CSRSS.EXE
exporer.exe
System
WinMgmt.exe
msnmsgr.exe
SERVICES.EXE
WINLOGIN.EXE
FrameworkServic
LSASS.EXE
svchost.exe
SMSS.EXE
Directcd.exe
UpdaterUi.exe
svchost.exe
shstat.exe
TASKMGR.EXE
mstask.exe
spoolsv.exeVsTskMgr.exe
svchost.exe
naPrdMgr.exe
regsvc.exe

[Brian Skalinder]

Per your other thread in the Ask The Tapers forum, check out Black Viper's Win2k Pro Services Config site.  Use it as a guide to turn off unnecessary services and see if you still have a problem.  If you do, I'd call Edirol support - maybe there's a problem with the UA-5s USB.

[waltflanagansdog]

I'll try the site, but that shit is in chinese to me.

[waltflanagansdog]

So do I need to be looking at DEFAULT Pro if I am running Win2000 Pro?

[Ed.]

do you have the proper driver installed for the ua-5?