Is my processor slowing my graphix down?

I have a Pentium 4 HT (3Ghz) and I also have a Radeon x1950Pro (overclocked) with 2 Gb of RAM and 1 Gb of Vista Readyboost RAM....

Is my processor slowing my graphics capability down. I think this is called bottlenecking or something like that.

Also, a friend told me that if I pressed alt+tab+delete and then stopped explorer.exe and then manually started my game that it would run smoother because when the game runs, explorer is still running taking some of your resources that coulb be better used by the game's processes. Is this true? although after the game I would have no explorer to navigate through my computer unless I ran the programs manually. Please answer and thanx in adnvanced..

naw I assume means no....

but no to what, the bottlenecking or the shutting down explorer.exe?

I've never heard of anyone shutting down explorer.exe, as normally it doesn't use much proccessor time at all.

But if you do want to do that, to reopen it, go Ctrl-Alt-Delete, then to File/Run, then type in explorer.exe, and ok. That'll restart explorer, and you'll be back to normal, although maybe witha few less notification icons :P.

They'll come back next restart.

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