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Bellzemos said:

Thank you for all the comments, it seems I'm doing things right. :)

There's a thing though - since I used Reflect I have WmiPrvSE.exe running in the background all the time. I never had that before. I googled it and it says it's a process that's used in the enterprise environment - but I am a home user. What's that about? Can I disable it?

Yeah it is a process for monitoring programs, as Peter said. Do you have a CPU or Temp gadget running?

I have that process too. It is absolutely benign and does nothing. Just sits there.

Why do you pick on this particular process. There are many processes that come an go. Do you make a ' Process Inspection' every morning after boot ?? LOL.

I think you don't realize that these processes don't run - they just sit there in case they are needed. And unless your PC has only 512MB of RAM, they are completely harmless. They just take a smidget of RAM away.

Bellzemos said:

Something like that, yes. I really don't want unnecessary stuff running on my PC so I have all unneeded services disabled.

You worry far, far too much about unimportant little details. I have 130 processes "running" right now and they aren't causing me any problems. Just because they show up in the Task Manager doesn't mean they are actually using any resources (or enough to ever be noticeable). Most are just idling in standby but, if you kill enough of them, you will slow your computer down when it has to restart them when they are needed.

Processes are not the same as startup applications. Too many startup applications can cause a slowdown in boot time but, unless you are running a legacy machine with way too little RAM, it will not slow your computer down.

OK, everybody has their hobby. Most are just as useless, LOL.

lehnerus2000 said:

Bellzemos said:

There's a thing though - since I used Reflect I have WmiPrvSE.exe running in the background all the time. I never had that before. I googled it and it says it's a process that's used in the enterprise environment - but I am a home user. What's that about? Can I disable it?

I don't have that service (WmiPrvSE.exe) running constantly on my PC.

I get a few instances (4 - 7) of WmiPrvSE.exe, if I run hardware monitors (e.g. Speccy or SIW.exe).

Minor point:
Speccy is still free
SIW is now paid only (unless you have an old version like me).