Satellite Pro A120 - what Toshiba process may be excluded from the start-up?

My old A120 has more than 50 processes in the Task Manager, before I even open a browser or other application.

This seems too much for a machine with a processor of 1.46 GB (and half a GB of RAM).

Many of them are processes of Toshiba and disturbing as if they are associated with the operation of the equipment.

Is there a list anywhere of the Toshiba process which can safely be disabled - and advises how to proceed?

Hello

Each laptop has different pre-installed software and so different processes are run in the context of the operating system.
There is no general answer that the process could be disabled.

Fact is that notebook Toshiba supports many different features that need additional software.
If you n t want to use features like the keys FN, Toshiba control buttons, etc. then you could disable the process responsible for this feature.

If you n t know exactly what do a certain process, then goggle just for some details. There are many Web sites with a different database that contains information about the Windows background process.

Then you can access the MSCONFIG and in the Startup tab you could disable some processes just to test.
In the worst case if something does not work you can turn it back on.

See you soon

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