A Plethora of Processes

Question

When I bring up Task Manager it shows anything from around 73 to 80 or so processes. When I count the ones showing I get about 35. When I check 'show processes from all users' box then I get a bunch more. To wit:

WUDFhost.exe (2 each)

csrss.exe (2)

ati2evxx.exe (2)

taskeng.exe (3)

svhost.exe (13) !?

These change slightly as time goes on. I am the only user so not sure where these indications are coming from. Thanks for any insight.

msgale · Answer

I have 88 processes running, simular to your counts, except for the atievxx.exe.  However atievxx is for ATI video cards and mine is a NVIDIA card.  The number of process is of far less importance the what the process are.  Is your system running OK, why worry

fireberd · Answer

I just checked my Vista Home Premium system (the one I'm posting with now) and it shows 73 processes.  And, I have a relatively clean (very little at startup or running) machine.

dalem29 · Answer

OK...I was just wondering since my XP machine doesn't do it. Guess it is something inherent to Vista. :smileywink:

msgale · Answer

Question - Since you started this thread and made no other posts, how can you credit yourself with an accepted solution?

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A Plethora of Processes

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