How Many Processes Are You Running?

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teknoT42 · #1 Post by **teknoT42** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 7:34 pm

Hey All,
If your press CTR-ALT-DEL > TaskManager
In the bottom left hand corner it shows the number of processes running.
On my thinkpad there are 35 Running

dd · #2 Post by dd » Sat Oct 30, 2004 7:56 pm

Mine shows: 53

Can I get the Task Manager to load automatically to show the cpu activity?

Thanks

teknoT42 · #3 Post by **teknoT42** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:09 pm

dd wrote:Mine shows: 53

Can I get the Task Manager to load automatically to show the cpu activity?

Thanks

Hello there
yes you can with a simple tweak
I have seen it once but I don't know how to do it..
have a look at www.tweakxp.com or www.regedit.com

All the best

Plinkerton · #4 Post by **Plinkerton** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:48 am

Mine shows 56. Is that bad?

none · #5 Post by **none** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:52 am

I have 28, pretty light... I optimized my system through msconfig, and the Services control panel.. No registry tweaks, and all my IBM preloaded software is still there.

teknoT42 · #6 Post by **teknoT42** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:01 am

Plinkerton
the less you have the faster your computer is in terms of resources

hiengu · #7 Post by **hiengu** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:18 am

none, I'm curious what things did you explicitly shut off?

RCube · #8 Post by **RCube** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:24 am

I got 52 at the moment...using about 441mb of memory... 1gb of ram sure comes handy.

Kenn · #9 Post by **Kenn** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:55 am

RCube wrote:I got 52 at the moment...using about 441mb of memory... 1gb of ram sure comes handy.

Haha, in perhaps the most misguided form of one-upsmanship ever, I've got 54 processes eating up 442mb right now! I wonder what's putting me over the top

#10 Post by **jdhurst** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 8:28 am

You can load Task Manager automatically as follows:
1. Put C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe in your startup folder.
2. Set it to run minimized.
3. Set Task Manager options to hide when minimized.

Then Task Manager will load automatically in the System Tray as a CPU usage icon. No registry hacks required or advisable.

I have 67 process running on my T41 and 47 processes running on my NetVista A30 desktop. Both machines run with just under 400Mb free (out of 768 total). ... JDHurst

dmcgibbo · #11 Post by **dmcgibbo** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:28 am

i would like to speed up my PC (including the startup time) so i assume the best way to do this is turn off services/processes in msconfig. i have turned some off but can anyone help me turn more off?

i thought there was a way to put all the things running in a text document and then there's a webpage or forum of people that know which ones are good and bad to turn off and how they are affected? also, you can edit the groupedit.msc or something like that or go into admin tools and disable services that you don't need.

but i'm not sure which ones to edit so any help would be appreciated. i have 60 processes running and "only" 512mb ram and this computer isn't any faster than my a30p from 3 years ago

ashleys · #12 Post by **ashleys** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:03 am

57 processes using about 200Mb but so what ? Agreed that my boot up may be bit slower but once the system is up and running they're all idle most of the time. It's not the number of processes that's the factor it's what they're doing. Take a look at the processes tab in Task manager and I'll bet they're all idling away (ie consuming no CPU). As for memory, well if you do need to start paging, those pages of the idle guys get stolen first (as they're the oldest).

jeroenp · #13 Post by **jeroenp** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:09 pm

teknoT42 wrote:press CTR-ALT-DEL > TaskManager

The quickest way to start Taskmgr by keyboard is using CTRL-SHIFT-ESC.

Process Explorer from SysInternals is a very good Task Manager replacement for tracking down issues with processes:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freew ... cexp.shtml

nikemen · #14 Post by **nikemen** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 2:53 pm

40 now, reduced some

nesen · #15 Post by **nesen** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 6:32 pm

87, and 1002 MB used memory

...not under windows, though.

The memory, well, I think it's way better for a system to _use_ the available memory. What's much memory good for otherwise?

But theres no point in counting processes to measure someones ability to administrate a system anyway, imho

Chatbox · #16 Post by **Chatbox** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:08 pm

I'm currently having 126 processes and memory usage is 1641MB.

Peter_S · #17 Post by **Peter_S** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:37 pm

...loaded in memory. As others have posted, your notebook's actual performance should be the focus. It might be instructive to open task manager (or Sysinternal's excellent Process Explorer tool) and monitor how many CPU cycles the various processes consume. However, being a programmer myself, I only do that when a specific problem occurs.

For the knowledgeable and adventurous (and I stress knowledgeable) ThinkPad owner, you can consult the Black Viper web site for information on the various Windows XP services (updated to SP2) and whether they can and should be turned off given your particular configuration. The relevant Web page is:
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm

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