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Hi Gerry,

Ok thanks for the referral to Process Explorer which I installed. It is
similar to TaskInfo but does give more information on what is going on.

I also un-installed Windows Desktop Search which I installed a couple of
weeks ago (and never used) and think was hogging a bit of CPU time and speed
has picked up quite a bit.

Thanks for all the suggestions, Bob


"Gerry" wrote in message
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> Bob
>
> Services.exe is a parent process and the usage will most likely be
> attributable to one if it's children. Process Explorer is freeware now
> under the auspices of Microsoft. It will give you more than Task Manager.
> Given that you are unaware of the nature of services.exe I presume,
> perhaps wrongly, that "TaskInfo" does not provide this information.
>
> --
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gerry
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> Bob Hamilton wrote:
>> Hi Gerry (and others),
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion and I already use (bought 2002 version)
>> "TaskInfo" (http://www.iarsn.com/) which likely does the same thing
>> as Process Explorer and this "services.exe" is in the
>> Windows/system32/ folder and likely something to do with the Windows
>> Quick Search. I'm not really going to do anything drastic but just
>> curious as to why it is running on this desktop and not on the
>> Toshiba laptop.
>> Right now after a reboot, the "services.exe" is not running there but
>> "searchindexer.exe" is, which was started by
>> WINDOWS/system32/services.exe and only taking about 55 CPU
>> (fluctuates).
>> I'm not a "newbie" to computers having been a software and computer
>> instructor since 1990, starting with DOS 3. Curious minds want to
>> know.
>> Thanks, Bob
>>
>> "Gerry" wrote in message
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>>> Bob
>>>
>>> Process Explorer provides more information than Task Manager.
>>>
>>> Download Process Explorer.
>>>
>>> For further information about Process Explorer see here:
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx
>>>
>>> To ascertain which service is causing the problem select the image
>>> producing the high CPU usage, right click, select Properties,
>>> Services. Note there are the full names and some explanation of what
>>> each service does.
>>>
>>> You will find further information on Services here:
>>> http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12
>>>
>>> To trace the particular Service involved you need to turn off each
>>> service in turn and then restore it noting what effect it has on CPU
>>> usage. However, you need to take care and watch what other Services
>>> are dependent on that service. When you click on the Dependencies
>>> tab allow it a little time to display the information
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Gerry
>>> ~~~~
>>> FCA
>>> Stourport, England
>>> Enquire, plan and execute
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~