Processes?

On my T500, I have 85 processes running? Are most of these processes Lenovo programs?

 

Most? No. Many? Probably. My advice is to uninstall the ThinkVantage utilities you never use. Be sure to keep Power Manager, and I highly recommend keeping Active Protection System. The rest are largely up to you, although I find Presentation Director pretty useful.

 

15-20 probably are -- Access Connections alone accounts for five. You need to do some research to figure out which Lenovo software to uninstall and which OS processes to disable.

 

A fresh install will get you something like 30 processes, however drivers and some programs are pretty much absolutely necessary. If you've got 4gb of ram and still less than 90 processes, I'd say you're in good shape. Mine's usually about 75 - 80 and the only Thinkvantage programs I have are Power Manager and the Active sys protection.

 

I never knew that TPs would have so many processes - I remember them being about 60 in W7 RC; though I've clean installed and used TP system updater, that might make some difference

 

I have 45 processes running.
9 are optional, and 36 are necessary, although there are probably 3-4 Microsoft Services I could probably disable without any issues.


Optional
1 calendar program
1 hosts file server program
2 Firewall and Gui
5 Intel wireless and drive programs
9 Total

Required
2 Synaptics touchpad exe - need them running to disable Tapping
4 ATI/AMD Catalyst Control and display exe - need to run to keep color changes working.
30 Microsoft Services
36 Total

I don't have anything Thinkvantage or Lenovo running.

 

At boot, I have ~65 processes, but several of these are CoreTemp, CPUMon, Gmail Notifier, and Taskbar Shuffle. Two more are Norton Internet Security 2009, and the only ThinkVantage utilities I have running are Power Manager and Active Protection System.