How many processes do you have on startup?

I personally have 55. 27% of my 4GB of RAM is used. Windows 7 Professional.


edit: I just went down to 36 and now I'm using 20% of my 4GB of RAM.

edit2: After getting down to 36 I ran this:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...-up-windows-boot-time-hdd-not-msconfig-2.html

And my boot time went down to 28 seconds. This is from starting out (base, untouched windows) at 73 processes and ~40% RAM and 48 second boot time.

 

54 processes. 1.28GB/8.00GB memory used, 16%.

 

uh, 79. Most of them are little 'niceties' from asus (atk packages for backlit kb, various onscreen displays for FN keys ect), volume control panels or CCC. And 16 svchosts There aren't any major offenders like adobe or office present, the largest memory footprint belongs to MSE (~60k).

Sure I could disable a lot of them but at less than 3k memory a pop on a system with 8gb ram, they really aren't slowing me down and I don't even notice them. If I need to boot into something asap I'll boot into linux.

 

Yeah I want to upgrade to 16GB of RAM when prices go down. At that point it won't really matter =p

edit: I started removing fluff today just because I realized I could. I've cut my boot time in half as well as how much RAM I use at startup. It doesn't effect me because I only disabled things I don't use.

 

"Half" is either exaggerating, or you had a really slow system

Even under a clean install of win7, that's been pretty much fully optimized you'll hit a wall at boot due to HDD rpm. Even some of the fastest 7200's today top out at around 30 secs for win7, from post > desktop. Disabling a handful of non-adobe services isn't going to improve that, sadly. For reference, mine typically takes 40s from cold post > desktop (if there were no account pass).

 

39 processes, 12% of 8Gb

If I pushed it, I could probably pare 5 processes off and 'save' 10+ Mb of ram.

On top of that, I have 5 sidebar gadgets running, the sidebar service/process is taking approx 20Mb.

The machine (i3, 2.4Gz) boots up from cold start to login in approx 10 seconds. Login takes another 10 seconds.

The biggest remaining is windows search/indexer. That appears to use around 6 Mb. I do believe that my machine is a tad snappier with the search indexer in place though.

Processes people forget about are the Apple Bonjour DNS helper (iTunes, Quicktime) and the WMP network sharing service. And don't forget the multiple media server and tablet PC components in win7. Those are all easily deinstalled and/or killed off.

 

I have 88 processes, 2.2GB RAM used under Win7/64.

 

I literally went from 48~ to 24~ seconds lol when I first got the computer (or soon after getting it, maybe a month) I was at 48~.

I uninstalled some adobe stuff. Flash, active x, air. That's it really. The rest was all disabling services/ startup programs and running the windows optimizer thingy. =p

 

OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nah but I have about 80 that run at startup, but the issue is that 2/3 of them are driver related

 

Yeah, I don't use this computer for much. For example, I don't print on it, so bye bye spooler service.

 

Almost the same as here: 98 processes, 2.2gigs used. Boot time is about 35 seconds. on Momentus XTs

 

I've got 55 processes and 28% of 4GB. I could remove 3-4 processes easily and get back around 21MB but I don't really think it makes a difference either way so whatever. After a bit it drops down to 51 and 25%.

 

I have 34 now with IE going (so 4 processes). One is other is for my touchpad and one for the Thinkpad Power Management service. Should be one for the fingerprint reader service too so basically i start up with 27 processes total.

I didn't do anything major to make Windows 7 Pro "slim" - all i did was clean install and only installed IE9, Office 2010 and few other things but none of them start up with the system. I normally start up at say 600-700MB of 2995MB (4GB installed on X86 system). Pretty sweet, i hate startup apps though!

 

Win 7/32. - 33 processes with 800 mb of my total of 2gb in use.

 

After startup and settling in, 80 proccesses and apr 1.8GB of 8GB total. I have alot of the goodies but that is fine.....

 

work laptop: 140 processes.

booted in around 20secs, rebooted about once every second/third week (rather random)

i haven't disabled services since xp sp2. only did longterm harm when ever someone did it (most don't know that it was their fault then and how windows can't do this, or that, blame microsoft and feel cool, then buy apple).

 

I normally have around 45 processes on startup. Though currently with iTunes and Firefox on (adding 2 more processes = 47) it's 995Mb / 4096MB (24%). Using Windows 7 Professional x64 in combination with my Intel X25-M SSD so its fairly nippy.

 

82 on home desktop. 20sec boot time or something, only restarting on the patch-tuesday or if i have to.

 

Somewhere between 65-80 on my main systems - really don't look/care. I load what I need for them to function as required. Concur with daveperman on leaving them alone.
Main systems both have SSDs and boot quickly and run smoothly.

 

Mine has 27 processes running upon startup and consumes 1.12 GB out of 8 GB in total.

It takes 50 seconds from the moment the power button is pressed to the time the desktop is completely loaded.

 

35 processes at start, 700 MB RAM used, 3 autostart programs, 26 seconds boot from hitting enter to the desktop, 5400 HDD.
This gave me a faster boot time, it's obviously not made for SSD's. I don't reboot very often so boot time isn't that important.

Services isn't much of a concern for me, at least not MS services, since it doesn't make much difference to performance anyway.
However, I don't like useless tasks and autostart programs. I probably wouldn't care if I had a SSD.

 

how do i know how much RAM is used upon startup?

 

check task manager

 

IIRC its like 60 processes on start and maybe 20% of 4GB used. Windows only stays on its loading screen for about 28 seconds though; I never really timed it but it's not lagging like my BIOS does when I have all of my drives plugged in, it sits at a blank screen for a good half-minute doing nothing