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Old 12-29-2007, 08:24 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Is there a way to get rid of unwanted processes besides randomly shutting things down in the task manager (I'm using XP, by the way)? At idle, I'm using around 350MB of memory (according to the task manager). That just seems way too high...
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Old 12-29-2007, 10:53 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Sweet! I'll give it a try as soon as I finish clearing room off my hard drive! Thanks guys!
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