abc@home Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Disabled a few services and have normally 40~50 processes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 31-32 on vista ultimate edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guruparan Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Main code architecture of Vista was also to break up several services into a single component which is light weight & run as and when required (even though it will be running at background from startup)...This is normal..and 1 GB RAM sys will be handling it very nicely...and my laptop is working fine @ 1GB ram with Vs.net 2005 , sql server, virtual pc of XP etc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff-Flowers Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Vista splits some things that used to be one process into seperate ones. This is usually done for security and reliability purposes, and you'll see more of it going forward.It's not a bad thing. The overhead for a process is miniscule on today's machines. Brandon, Can you give a specific example where this happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANova Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 22 in XP and that's with extra programs running. 1.75 GB of 2 GB available. Vista? No thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenji Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Before I reinstalled Vista I usually had 130~ process running. I now have 57. I cant see any difference between them performance wise. RAM Use age is the same also, And that doesn't bother me unlike some people. what's the point in having 2GB of RAM when your not gonna even use half of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dysmatik Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSDragoon Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb963902.aspx Amazing program... some of you really need to take a look at this. Personally, the lowest I can get is 12 processes on my XP boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clear Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 48 processes here. The only things that are running are Firefox and a few IM clients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruckWEB Posted December 19, 2007 Share Posted December 19, 2007 Disabled a few services and have normally 40~50 processes. Is their a list of services that can be safely disabled in Vista? A tweak guide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted December 20, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 20, 2007 Brandon,Can you give a specific example where this happened? A few examples: * Sidebar runs multiple processes to isolate third-party gadgets / gadgets with different trust levels * IE now has ieuser.exe for marshalling between Protected Mode and the regular user security context * The indexer uses several seperate processes, as described here. * Previewers for the shell mostly run out-of-proc in prevhost.exe (instead of in Explorer like in WDS 3.x on XP). * Task Scheduler (multiple taskeng.exe processes) Also, since services are isolated to Session 0 now, that means there are always at least two sessions running while you're using your computer, each with its own set of core services (csrss.exe, etc). Other things that will add to the list include: * Media Center and Tablet PC features * 64-bit systems with additional WOW64 process, like splwow64.exe * Defender * Sidebar * DWM.exe (user mode portion) * New services (superfetch, DWM service, Windows Search, new networking services, new PNP and user-mode driver framework stuff, etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff-Flowers Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 Thanks for the information Brandon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethere Posted December 20, 2007 Share Posted December 20, 2007 http://polymorph.home.comcast.net/~polymorph/processes.jpg 42 processes here. Vista Home Premium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuJu Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 I have 62 right now...when i first got vista i tried to stop it but its no use there always going to be a lot of processes even with all start up programs disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANova Posted December 21, 2007 Share Posted December 21, 2007 I have 62 right now...when i first got vista i tried to stop it but its no use there always going to be a lot of processes even with all start up programs disabled. I managed to get Vista Ultimate down to 36. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PGHammer Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 I managed to get Vista Ultimate down to 36. In my case, it's 68 processes; however, almost half are non-MS (third-party) software. (Vista Ultimate x86) ATI's Catalyst (7.11) has three processes, as does Logitech's QuickCam software; DriveHQ and WinZip have two processes each, and Yahoo Messenger (Vista-native) has but one. On the Microsoft side, the Sidebar and IE have two processes each, DWM (used by Aero) has a separate process, and the Task Scheduler and Task Manager are also separate processes. While there are more processes, there's also a lot more *granularity* because more processes are separately spun out (as opposed to being in danger of becoming *catchall* processes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuJu Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 I managed to get Vista Ultimate down to 36. i prabably have more programs running than you all the time and i have 2 gig, and the OS doesn't slow down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macfanboy Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 ive had 108 running at one time :woot: :band: :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted December 22, 2007 Administrators Share Posted December 22, 2007 73 here and all is peachy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife Party Posted December 22, 2007 Share Posted December 22, 2007 lol...i usually have about 33 processes running standard....i will never go above 37... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEVER85 Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 44 processes here on Vista Home Premium with AIM, WLM, and Firefox running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManMountain Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 57 processes just now. Vista just remains smooth and responsive no matter how many are running :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therat Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Is their a list of services that can be safely disabled in Vista? A tweak guide? This is one I use, probably others around as well http://www.blackviper.com/WinVista/servicecfg.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsupersonic Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 On XP now, have 18 processes (can close about 4 processes for bare minimum). It's using just a bit over 200MB of RAM. I usually run 17-25 processes, very rarely more than that. I rarely go above 500MB of RAM use (except when I run VMWare). On Vista, I have anywhere from 35-40 processes. At idle, it uses about 30-35% of my RAM and I've never hit 1GB of RAM + in use. I have 1.5GB of RAM with XP/Vista dual boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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