text: how do you get rid of excess junk running on your pc?  like things running in the background? is there a free program?  how do you edit what programs are running--the ones you see next to the time on your pc?  (something besides task manager?) go to "run" command and type in "msconfig".  uncheck the services and processes you don't want running.  reboot and then check the task manager.  you should not see those processes.