Activity manager

[Steamer Dave]

I went to activity manager today and finally decided to count the number of activities that were listed as active(I assume). There were over 200 activities listed. It is almost impossible for me to know what they are for or who provided them. On my PC the provider is given and that gives me some hint as to whether I need it or not. Based on that I can hunt it down and uninstall it.
Also, I notice in the far left column there is an icon for a few of the activities. I do not know why they rate an icon and the others do not.

Dave

 

[Cory Cooper]

For the most part, the processes with an icon are applications that are running. The others are system processes.

Normally you will have that many processes running - my mac has 236 running as I type this. The only thing you really need to worry about in the display of processes is if any are red and say (Not Responding). Other than that, I wouldn't advise doing anything other than viewing the processes without knowledge of what you are doing.

Use Activity Monitor on your Mac

C

 

[Steamer Dave]

Thanks for the info. I will do as you advised.

Dave

 

[Steamer Dave]

BTW, I thought there was a way to see all of my threads. I do not seem to be able to locate that capability. I also can no longer report a thread as solved/closed.

Can you help with that?

 

[Cory Cooper]

To see you all of your posts/threads, click on your name under the avatar in the box in the upper right of this window, then click on Postings.

There isn't a way to mark a thread as closed on this forum. other forum software has that ability.

Let us know if you can't find them,

C

 

[Steamer Dave]

There is no name under the avatar. there is my handle to the upper right of that box. When I click on it I am taken to a screen where I can look at my recent postings. Thanks you.

Dave

 

[Cory Cooper]

Oops...I meant to clarify that to say your forum name.

No worries,

C