TV process / services activity

Every time I start my machine, the background activities seem to go on
forever, making everything run at a snails pace. Checking in Task
Manager, I find the main culprits to be processes associated with
ThinkPad or Think Advantage.

Processes like; TPHDEXLG, TPHKMgr, tvt_reg_monitor_svc.exe, cssauth
are very active. Even when the activity cools down, I see those
processes are still active in the background whenever I open Task
Manager. Of course, the 'on-demand' AV keeps pace, checking their
every file read and write. Draining resources I'd like to put and end
to.

Is this normal? What could TPHKMgr have to do? I haven't set up any
Hot Keys that I know of. And the Registry Monitor, when no apps are
running.

Could some of them be stopped?

[Follow-up set to comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad]
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:08:58 -0700 (PDT), Teflon
<spambaitmeister@gmail.com> wrote in
<0c1077de-b1a5-401f-8a4c-937417db5864@a37g2000prf.googlegroups.com>:

>Every time I start my machine, the background activities seem to go on
>forever, making everything run at a snails pace. Checking in Task
>Manager, I find the main culprits to be processes associated with
>ThinkPad or Think Advantage.
>
>Processes like; TPHDEXLG,

ThinkVantage Active Protection System -- can be uninstalled if you don't
use it, but highly recommended you keep it.

>TPHKMgr,

ThinkPad Hotkey Manager -- can be uninstalled if you don't use it.

>tvt_reg_monitor_svc.exe,

ThinkVantage Registry Monitor Service Module

>cssauth

Client Security Solution -- can be uninstalled if you don't use it.

>are very active.

How much RAM do you have? I recommend maxing out your RAM.

>Even when the activity cools down, I see those
>processes are still active in the background whenever I open Task
>Manager.

They should be, but shouldn't be consuming significant CPU resources.

>Of course, the 'on-demand' AV keeps pace, checking their
>every file read and write. Draining resources I'd like to put and end
>to.

AV should only be checking the opening of files that might be infected,
not every read and write. What AV are you using? I'm now recommending
(free) Microsoft Security Essentials.

>Is this normal? What could TPHKMgr have to do? I haven't set up any
>Hot Keys that I know of. And the Registry Monitor, when no apps are
>running.

See above.

>Could some of them be stopped?

Things you don't want can be uninstalled -- just stopping them is not a
good idea.

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