How many processes is an acceptable amount.

I own a thinkpad t61, I've had it since july. When I first got it, it had about 90-95 processes. I ran a clean install a week or so after realizing that running that many processes was slowing down my computer considerably.

I've now gotten my computer down to running between 55-60 processes and physical memory is somewhere usually between 45%-50%.

Is this an acceptable amount? By the way I have vista business running on the machine.

 

Without a print screen of your task manager's Processes tab, it'll be difficult to tell you which processes are useless/not needed and can be shut down.

 

I'm running vista home premium with 49 processes and 30% memory usage and i think that's still too much. As Silas said, we need a screen shot of your desktop to tell which processes are need or not.

 

i have 4gigs of ram, and running at 25-30% memory usage with 49 processes as well....most being from firefox though....but still.

 

I currently only have 35 (Server 08 x64).

 

I have 2 gigs of ram, so maybe that would explain why my % of memory usage is higher than you guys

 

I also have 2GB of ram. Anyway, i don't really see any processes that can be deleted on that list. =\

 

No, the number of processes explains the very high memory usage. Mine is at around 30 - 35%.

 

Yeah, he does have a huge number of processes but i don't think any of them can be deleted because he needs them all.

 

Any suggestions then? I mean I've pretty much done all I could think of. I ran ccleaner to clean my registry and other parts of my computer. I don't know what else to do that would bring down the physical memory usage.

 

To decrease the number of processes you'll have to play with the Services. If you've done that already I am not sure how it would help anymore. I managed to get 26 system services (without mine).

 

What you've got now is perfectly reasonable.
If you want to optimize, then basically Google each process name where it's not obvious what it is.
Some non-essentials include hkcmd (Intel graphics hotkeys), KodakSvc (don't know what this is exactly)... maybe TPHKSVC (Thinkpad hotkeys maybe?), Modem Audio Service if you don't use your modem.

RAID manager... are you using RAID?

You can go through the services too in the Services tab... see blackviper.com for explanations of the services... but don't expect a big improvement from any of this stuff, since what you have now looks reasonable.

 

It's not unusual for me to have 70-80 processes running at once with about 10% average of CPU power and 50% of physical memory.

I know that's ridiculously high, but I don't know enough about processes to know how to limit it.

 

We can help!

I think I will make a services guide the day after tomorrow, since I'm pretty good at it. It will take some time, but I'll get to an end.

 

In terms of services, I haven't really turned anything off besides fax, tablet pc, and some bluetooth services. I guess it's fine the way it is....

 

By the way, there's no reason to worry about high physical memory usage. Vista sees free RAM and decides to use it for caching purposes. Just let it do its thing, and don't think about memory usage the way you used to in XP. To Vista, unused RAM is wasted RAM... that's why it's always using so much.

 

aight, thanks for the help

 

ermm ok i got 80 processes running :/
And i always thought that amount was normal lol..

Here's my list,can anyone tell me which processes can be killed?

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/8798/processesmr0.jpg

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7104/processes2sr2.jpg

 

I don't know if you use all the thinkvantage software, but you could get rid of a bunch of the software they put on their computers. Personally, I think any new computer thank comes from Lenovo needs a clean install.