# Wasted memory

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wasted-memory/120352>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 23, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wasted-memory/120352 "2004-08-23T16:27:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Joe\_is\_the\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@Joe\_is\_the\_man](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Joe_is_the_man)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wasted-memory/120352/1 "2004-08-23T16:27:22Z")

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Hey everyone. I’m searching for a program that will find useless applications and services that are running in the background of my computer. There is a very long list of applications in the list and I was wondering if anyone knows of a program that can find the ones that are sucking up my memory but aren’t doing anything. In other words, something that will optimize the performance of my computer. Thanks. BTW, i’m running on Windows XP Home edition.

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**Author:** ![Maxtr0sity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maxtr0sity](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maxtr0sity)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wasted-memory/120352/2 "2004-08-23T17:03:28Z")

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Check out [www.tweakxp.com](http://www.tweakxp.com), they got some neat system performance tweaks, becareful and BACKUP!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wasted-memory/120352/3 "2004-08-24T02:40:18Z")

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Process Program to view and has info to tell whether you can stop or not:  
[http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/screens/](http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/screens/)

For education…a list of known processes that could be running and what each one is:  
[http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/allprocesses/](http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/allprocesses/)

and there are several other tutorials on the right hand side bar.

very good website.