What's all this stuff in my windows task manager? (Also, Outlook nor working... help?)

Gabriel_Pitt

I just inherited a travel laptop (running XP) from a coworker, and everything was going hunky dory until yesterday, when circumstances forced me to try and get some information from my e-mails just as the battery was dying. It croaked with Outlook2000 open, and today, when I opened Outlook, it always hangs as soon as I click on one of my mail folders, or when the 'connecting to server message comes up.' Using the Detect & Repair option did not

Also, because startup takes forever, and there seems to be a lot of hanging, are any of these task manager processes useless things that I should be excising from the system with extreme prejudice? The whited out names are the ones listing me as the user.



*edit*
And outlook just fixed itself and is working normally now. Anyone have an idea what the problem might've been?

Thank you.

bowen

A lot of that stuff is shit that gets installed on your computer when it's first set up by companies like HP. Off the top of my head I see something for intel wireless lan(Dot1xcfg, wlkeeper,ifrmewrk), CD/DVD burner software(dlactrlw), windows live (seaport), and the obvious windows stuff there.

Tox

For the record, I don't think I've ever found a process name I couldn't just type into Google and get results for.

Gabriel_Pitt

There is that, but I like hearing directly what people have to say on a topic like this, and my biggest concern was Outlook going kablooey, since that was the work related stuff I really needed access to (so I probably should've reversed the thread title...)