RE: 66 running processes?
From: Albert (Albert_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/24/05
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:15:03 -0800
Hi Jeremy,
I'm no expert but if it's any use as "confidence" booster for you. I've got
Win XP, a firewall and an AV and about seven background utilities, and with
just IE6 running as an extra so I can post this my Task Manager shows I have
44 processes loaded taking 290MB of my 512MB RAM and 750MB swap file.
You say "running", but do you actaully mean "loaded". If I watch mine in
Task Manger, almost all the time almost all of them are not doing anything -
which as far as I know is perfectly normal as only a usually small handful of
relevant ones should spring into action when Windows is doing a bit of
houskeeping or I'm using a related program.
I mainly just surf the net and from what you say you've got about 30% more
happening on your machine, if you have 66 processes loading that sounds to me
what you might expect anyway.
I use FreeRAM XP Pro (a popular freebie anywhere off the internet if you
haven't got it) to manage the RAm, seems real good, never given me any
problems, runs entirely on its own in the background).
If you haven't got a problem dont try and fix one, but if you want I'd
suggest first thing open Task Manager and look at the Aplications panel
rather than the Processes one, and with each programs ask if you really do
want it to load right from boot up, or could you take it off the load list
and just start it from an ordinary desktop icon when you did actually want to
use it. [Quite a lot of programs load several processes so you might cut your
list a lot just by doing that with one or two programs].
Stopping programs you use loading early is only likely to make much
difference though if you're actually noticing lots of sluggishness or crashes
all the time, because any processes left out at start up will load anyway
when you call up their programs. In that case FreeRAM could be a better thing
to try.
PS: Most of the processes in my machine are about 2 to 8 MB in size, about
seven are 10 to 20MB, and three are 40MB. The larger ones cause most of the
start up delay whilst my AV scans them during their loading (From when I
click my blue screen account icon to when the desktop becomes set up and
usable takes about 40 seconds - and included in that is a period of about 10
seconds during which the machine is getting its broadband access sorted out
with my isp's server, so the underlying basic boot is really 30 seconds -
it's hardly fair to inlcude the time it takes the isp to notice my machine
has come online is it). If, offline, I stop my broadband, firewall and
antivirus loading then the machine will boot in about 8 seconds, which from
what I've heard is about as fast as it gets for an 2.6GHz multimedia system:
unless you want to do things to it that might well have it send your home up
in flames - together with all your licenses, warranties and insurances.
IE: I think you probably haven't got a problem. :)
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