What’s that running in the background?

If you’ve ever looked at your running processes in Windows (commonly known as the task list) and wondered what some obscure entry was on there, bookmark this site now. They discuss the relevence of some of those hard-to-identify .exe files, and how to turn them off, as well.

Comments

Dawn says:

Thanks to you I just removed a ton of crap off this computer. I already had Ad-aware, I went ahead and downloaded Spybot..whoa, did it find a bunch more crap. Thank you!

Spyware stuff

I’ve had Ad-aware for ages, and usually run it weekly. Today I was reading a post over at Utterly Boring (which he is far from being) about Task Managers processes running in the background. I always wondered what that crap…