Close Programs box.

[Jam]

What are these programs and is it safe to close them, Rnaapp, Mediadet, Loadqm, Ctnotify, Systray, Mdm, Winampa, Ctmix32. When playing games it says to close programs in the Close programs box, i just don't want to close things that are essential

[curiousgeorg]

I would leave (rnaapp, systray) alone. If I remember correctly these are system programs. Winampa is winamp agent for the program (winamp). Mediadet and ctmix32 sound like sound related files. No clue as to loadqm, ctnotify (some sort of notifier), or mdm. Hope it helps!

[curiousgeorg]

you can close anything but systray, and rnaapp.

[TheHitMaker]

Try them - if the system needs them either your machine will hang or they will restart - depending on you operating system. The worst that can happen is that the computer will crash and you'll have to reboot.

[Cactus]

I can enlighten you on a couple of them; Mediadet and CTnotify are both linked to the Creative sound card that i assume you have, and i would hazard a guess that Ctmix32 is to do with that as well. Loadqm is some Microsoft thing that reports back to MS... nothing to be worried about, it's a quality manager i think, just tells MS how good a service you're recieving. It's ok to close most of these i think, i do when i want to stop unnecessary CPU/hard drive activity whilst playing a game or burning a CD. Definately leave Systray running though. Haven't a clue what Rnaapp is unfortunately. I've never seen it on my list.

[AussieGeoff]

Try http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup
_full.htm, it has a range of programs listed, what starts them, are they needed etc. As to some of them, mdm is the Microsoft Debug Manager so if you aren't into programming, close it. Contrary to popular belief you can close systray.exe, it has nothing to do with the operation of the system tray, it just provides icons for the default windows volume control, power management and one other, I forget. If you have a sound card with its own volume control you dont need both. If windows actually needs systray it will start it anyway. If I remember correctly you dont close Winampa, you right click on it and then click disable, then it will disappear and not reappear the next time you boot. On loadqm just search for it on this site, there are a heap of articles about it or http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;
EN-US;q309418 which an article about it in the Micro$oft Knowledge base. Geoff