How many process on a clean reformat of windows 7

Pslug · 27 Oct 2009

Went to the task manager and saw about 67 processes running (80% bloat im sure)

How many processes should be running on a clean install of windows 7?

H2SO4 · 27 Oct 2009

The number of processes is almost completely irrelevant in terms of performance. One lone thread running in a tight loop can do far more to bring a system to its knees than hundreds of almost entirely dormant processes.

rsvr85 · 27 Oct 2009

H2SO4 said:

The number of processes is almost completely irrelevant in terms of performance. One lone thread running in a tight loop can do far more to bring a system to its knees than hundreds of almost entirely dormant processes.

Agreed :)

@ Pslug, if you have 'Show processes from all users' checked on, then 67 sounds about right.

Lomaaaz · 28 Oct 2009

just reinstalled 2day a clean one and having only 47 in a full system AV,Drivers but if u have alot of drivers it will be more Dependable

jhitch12 · 29 Oct 2009

I have a clean install of win 7 64bit running with norton 2010 installed and only 35 processes running at idle.