91 Processes right after startup???? help.

thats what i have for start ups, i still dotn understand how that could possibly be running 91 processes

this is what task manager gives me. Thanks for the look guys. Please let me know whats with all this garbage? I never deleted the restore partition that came with the laptop and im tempted to just bring the computer back to how it was out of the box although its not even 3 months old. its a hp dv7-4285dx. what do you guys think?

You could kill a few right away with most of the HP stuff.

Anything that is an 'updater'

All Apple processes , ipodservice, bonjour etc

The webcam software, lightscribe

Thanks Smart, but that only brought me down to 81. I still think I'm too high.

It's a start :)

(What you are seeing is what is commonly called "Bloatware" - companies like HP are renowned for it. The vast majority of services simply aren't needed.

It may also be a good idea to keep a list of what you are disabling *in case* something you regularly use stops working how you like it.

Most of the below should still function, but only open when/if needed. Also, a lot of these can only be disabled by disabling the service itself using services.msc

Andea Filter process (mic related)
SmartMenu.exe (Hp media related)
psiservice-2 (Corel related)
digitalpersona (* finger print scanner related * )
igxfpers.exe (Intel graphics related - not need to be run at startup)
IDT PC audio (audio driver system tray)

I somewhat figured out the problem. On almost all my programs I had automatic updates and every feature and operation on so I think that's the problem. Some things were just not starting for scamps the go recovery manager didn't start I had to do it by restart. I ended up backing up my music videos and documents on an external and restored the computer back to out f the box. I'm going to follow the the thread here on the forums for "hp out of the box set up guide" and "optimizing your computer" threads. Thanks slot for the help.

alright so i restore back to the out of the box condition, but now there are 92 processes upon start up! it has to be HP bloatware, tomorrow night im going to go through the out of the box thread and see if i can get rid of all this garbage.