Identify Redundant Processes and Services?

[HairyScot]

How can I tell which processes and/or services could be redundant?
I ran task manager when I had nothing running and it shows 72 processes and a lot of services. Some of the services are stopped.
Have attached screen shots of the task manager displays.
Would welcome any advice or comments.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Run msconfig.exe.

Look at the services tab. Check "hide all Microsoft services".

Examine the remaining services. How many do you have? I have 6 non-Microsoft services running. You should need very few non-MS services to run safely.

But a stopped service shouldn't be causing you any problems.

 

[HairyScot]

Run msconfig.exe.

Look at the services tab. Check "hide all Microsoft services".

Examine the remaining services. How many do you have? I have 6 non-Microsoft services running. You should need very few non-MS services to run safely.

But a stopped service shouldn't be causing you any problems.

I have quite a few non-MS services, but each one is identified as being from an installed application. It seems that just about every application has its own service.
I am not experiencing any problems, I was just curious about what I thought was a high number of processes and services.

 

[seavixen32]

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