number of processes running?

was trying to decide if i should reformat my laptop. many post here say its worth it to get rid of the bloatware which will reduce the running process, free up space,boot faster, etc.

the one thing that i was wondering about is the actual amount of processes running it actually removes at the time of fresh reinstall and maybe sometime down the road.

could some people pls post the amount of processes running and how long since they did the reformat. even interested in amount with people who reformated a long time ago.

also would be interested to know different peoples amount of processes running on non reformated systems.

my info isnt that useful as i only thought about it after i uninstalled some programs. currently i have ..

e1705 removed unknown amount of programs and added 2 games and an antivirus program. used it for 1 week and have 44 processes running.

im happy with the speed of my laptop.

 

Ol' Inspiron 6000D. 11 weeks on money since the last reformat and I'm currently running 64 processes. I'll reformat again in 2 more weeks before starting school again. In my case, it's probably Tom know's what from sibling and 'rents barrowing the laptop while I'm asleep. Plus office productivity, instant messenger. Yes, I have aol which probably acounts for ten, off of the 50 million processes windows runs on it's own. Antivirus, firewall photoshop. Opera, explorer, Itunes. It all depends on what and how much you install after a reformat.

 

I don't think as far as I can tell much of anything has ever been mentioned here about system processes running before I brought it up, you all over looked this and the morons who do all their "bench mark" testing never mention it in the tests they run. It's huge though and has everything to do with your responsiveness.

What value does a bench mark test possibly have when you have no refernce towards what all system processes are also running in the background at the same time?

Use common freakin sense, better faster rated hardware is going to get you better faster results. You don't need a good review or some bench mark testing software to tell you that. Apply simple common sense, faster processor, faster CPU, faster memory, faster hard drive all equals faster computer, it's a no freaking brainor to figure out. You don't need an engineering degree, a review, or even a clue to figure that out.

My new D820 laptop with a 2Ghz dual core processor, 7200 RPM hard drive and 2Ghz of 667Mhz memory is running right now with 46 processes set to automatic, at least another 20 set to manual and nothing I do on it isn't happening right now as soon as I fire it up.

I have a latitude CS with a Pent II 400Mhz processor, 256Mb of RAM and less than 20 processes running automatic on it and 40 set to manual and while it does run much slower, it still runs well. Mainly because I took the time to control the running processes on it.

Your on the right track though by wanting to controll your running processes to speed up your system or even save on battery life for your laptop.

The advice of reformating your harddrive to get better results is just stupid advice from someone who doesn't have a clue about system processes and should instead spend more time looking into both where the problems lay and what a better approach is towards fixing them.

You could do a complete reformat of your hard drive and still end up worse off if you don't understand or even know how to look into system process issues.