The Number of Processes in Windows Vista

What is a good healthy number of processes running in Windows Vista which will let u enjoy a decent performance while gaming?


These days mine is 60.

I tried reducing to 50..but seems impossible as smthg stops working suddenly.

 

Depends how much resources the processes actually take.

 

I've got 40ish running in Vista and I still don't get very good gaming performance, hence the reason I use XP. I think like flipfire said it depends on how much resources the processess use up.

 

I have around 60-70....that's after I tweaked the services as well. But for me, it usually runs quite smooth and fast.

 

on both of my Vista x64 rigs, with nothing running I have about 35 processes. Vista keeps doing housekeeping and firing up a temporary process here and there but it's always between 35-38.

How the heck do you get 70 processes @.@

 

46 procceses with nothing running and me going in and "end tasking" some pesky media center stuff that always runs for some reason despite me not using media center.

With AIM about 50 or 51, peak 60 procceses.

 

The Media Center stuff can be killed/prevented from running. That stupid Media Center thing was the main reason I went with Vista x64 Business on my gaming rig. No Media Center!

 

Yeah... counting the number of processes is pretty useless. There's a Description field in the Processes tab of Task Manager that tells you what most of the processes do. Read it and figure out what you need or don't need. I also add a Command Line field (from View > Select columns...) which can help figure out what things are. You could also post a Task Manager screenshot here and get some suggestions.

 

51 here.
Can close ~ 7 of them as I'm using these at the moment.

Though I had about 25 processes running with XP Pro..

 

I have 28 processes at startup on vista 32bit

 

Code:

Windows PowerShell
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PS C:\Users\nick> (get-process).count
48

 

Yeah, like swarmer said, there is little or no correlation between number of running processes and gaming performance.

 

Ok I just checked mine- I have exactly 99 processes I have no idea how to get rid of them and which ones I should keep. No wonder this is slow as.

 

Yikes that's the most I've ever heard of. I don't run Vista but I'm sure someone can recommend a tweaking guide.

I'd add another gig of RAM.

 

I have about 90 running at any one time.

 

I have 151 processes running myself. 50 are "avast! Web Scanner" processes and 18 are "Host Process for Windows Services" processes.

 

+1 for having a useful machine.

Lean setups are just glorified web browsers.

 

Have around 50 processes with 35% RAM.

 

U must be kidding!

thats too much.. how much is your idle CPU usage?

 

Yeah I have to say thats not too uncommon for a power user. 151 doesnt seem too bad IMHO being as though he/she is probably using their machine. Personally I havent measured running processes as I know it will be high, and the T8100 + 3GB 4-4-4-12 RAM have been able to handle just about anything I have thrown at it with great speed.

Well not always, I lean down my PCs to the best of my ability to turn off/clean up all the things I wont need to maximize what I can do with my rig. But I do agree that trying to maintain a lean OS will limit what you can and will do. But then again the majority or users are just web surfing and using Office.

 

heh, IMO if you don't take a performance hit then why bother trying to clean up all the processes.

 

At the time it didn't go over 5% and usually hung around 1% if not 0. After I restarted the processes went down to 102 and pretty much the same CPU usage.

 

I dont think anyone got what i said earlier. The number of process doesnt directly mean the amount of resource being used.

Let me elaborate,

You could have 10 processes using 1000000000% of system resources

or you can have 10000 processes using 1% of system resource.

Which is better?

 

I have as many as it takes to run what I want to run. I do tune a bit to get what Windows wants to run in line with what I want to run.

FWIW, I just looked via TaskMgr. On an idle system there are 45 processes showing (with the Show Processes From All Users box checked).

 

I have 88 running right now...

I also have plenty of memory and CPU left over too

 

As I sit here Im at 81 processes, 52% of 3GB RAM usage, and because I have streaming data as well as a few other open ports 3-10% cpu usage on one core. My system is only light multitasking ATM and is as snappy now as it is after a fresh restart opening the first app, and my rig has been running 24/7 for weeks. What I have running at the moment:

World of warcraft (damn addiction is sickening)
3 RDP(Remote desktops)
AIM Pro
XM streaming music
~7-10 file explorers with minimal file transfers
Palm desktop (trying to parse palm desktop data /w outlook with a new method)
MS Active sync
Jcreator Java compliler (dunno why I left this open with my side project)
Firefox with 5 tabs
Ventrillo 3.0 connected
Windows mobile center
Windows task manager

All in all a light session on the Dell.