[nfbcs] Getting Rid of Process That Do Not Go Away Upon Exit without Using the Task Manager

Wed Jun 5 14:52:32 UTC 2019

one thing i want to know is there a way in office 365 to not have it load at 
start-up?
i see over 5 instances of click to run in task mgr.

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From: Steve Jacobson via nfbcs
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2019 9:40 AM
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Cc: Steve Jacobson
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Getting Rid of Process That Do Not Go Away Upon Exit 
without Using the Task Manager

Nicole,

I don't think this was mentioned, but it is worth checking the options of 
some programs directly to see if they may have a preference or option that 
can be changed.  Some programs have a "fast start" option that causes part 
of the program to run at startup so it doesn't have to be started when you 
start the program later.  This doesn't usually take much RAM or processing 
time, though.  There might be something like this for Acrobat, for example, 
but I don't know for sure, nor do I know how much it will really help if 
disabled.  The question is whether this is all worth your time.

Some people end up saving a lot of files on their desktop so they can find 
them quickly.  It is my understanding that this actually takes up some RAM 
because of desktop handling.  Making sure your desktop contains primarily 
shortcuts may help.

In my experience, I found my computer became slower to respond when 
downloading a large Windows Update or Microsoft Office Update.  Usually I 
had no idea that was happening.  I get messages from Microsoft Defender that 
my computer has been scanned six times and no threats found, but I would 
have no idea that was happening at the time, either.  That almost certainly 
affected my computer.  I sometimes found that just letting it run overnight 
and get caught up with all updates and such did help to make things run 
better, at least for a while.

I also tried a program to clean up my registry.  I have little doubt that a 
lot of registry entries that are not needed cause problems.  The statistics 
generated were impressive and I have no reason to question that some good 
was done.  However, I have never observed the significant computer speed 
gain that was promised.

One thing I did with my laptop was to "reset" windows.  It is like 
installing a clean version of Windows and it involves a lot of time because 
other applications need to be installed again.  This did help, and I tried 
to pay attention as I reinstalled applications whether something suddenly 
caused the laptop to slow up.  Also, for better or worse, this "reset" 
caused me to get rid of all of the maintenance and repair tools that came 
with my computer from the manufacturer, and I suspect this may have helped. 
Who knows, though, what affects from that will eventually surface.  However, 
over time, my laptop has again become slow to respond, and I am looking back 
at the time I spent resetting Windows as a poor use of a weekend.

Modern operating systems and software have a lot of processes running.  My 
guess is that if you were able to look at the processes running on a 
computer that you felt was running well that you would find there are as 
many as on your computer.  Thinking about specific software that might be 
slowing up your computer might help, though.  As Lloyd suggested, looking at 
the amount of free RAM and even free disk space and observing when those 
values might be low may end up pointing you in the right direction.  This is 
probably not all that encouraging, though.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Nicole Torcolini via 
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Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 12:44 AM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Nicole Torcolini <ntorcolini at wavecable.com>
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Getting Rid of Process That Do Not Go Away Upon Exit 
without Using the Task Manager

Believe me, I have already thoroughly cleaned the startup list, including a 
program that allows me to see, change, and even remove all start up registry 
entries including ones not shown in msconfig. I absolutely hate the fact 
that every new program thinks that it gets to run at start up.
That's what I thought...there is not really a solution to this problem of 
programs that don't really close.

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kevin via nfbcs
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2019 8:21 AM
To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
Cc: Kevin
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Getting Rid of Process That Do Not Go Away Upon Exit 
without Using the Task Manager

You may need to actually kill the process manually.  Also, check your
startup folder and clear stuff out of there.

On 6/4/2019 1:05 AM, Nicole Torcolini via nfbcs wrote:
>              I use JAWS on a laptop. In addition to too many processes
> slowing down JAWS, I don't like having to plug in my laptop every hour or 
> so
> just because there is too much stuff running in the background. Sometimes,
> when I close a program, the process does not go away. The most frequent
> culprit is Adobe Acrobat. I often check the task manager anyway, but it is
> still extremely annoying. Is there some way to reinforce to programs that
> close means go away completely-not go lurk in the background?
>
>
>
> Nicole
>
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