How many processes should be running on Windows 10?

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How to Fix Too Many Background Processes in Windows 10
Solution 1. Reduce Background Processes Using Task Manager
Solution 2. Strip Down Windows 10 Startup Processes
Solution 3. Disable Third-Party Software Services from Windows Startup
Solution 4. Free up Resources Windows 10 through System Configuration
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Concerned about a slow PC, Davis13 asked the Laptops forum about all the processes that Windows runs.

Processes are programs or pieces of programs running within Windows. It’s normal to have a great many of them. As I write this, I have only seven running applications, but 120 processes. And Windows is running just fine.

To examine your processes, right-click the taskbar and select Task Manager (Start Task Manager in Windows 7), then click the Processes tab.

It’s easier to study the long list if you sort them. To do so by name, click the Image Name column header.

You may want to sort by other columns. Click the CPU heading to see what’s hogging most of the processor’s attention. You’ll notice that most of the processes aren’t hogging anything (or at least not enough to register). That’s why you can have so many of these running and still get good performance.

If you’re using XP, you may notice an outrageous hog named System Idle Process, taking up almost 100 percent of your CPU cycles. Don’t worry. System Idle Process isn’t actually using anything. It’s just a placeholder for unused cycles. Vista and Windows 7 don’t have this misleading process.

You can also sort by Memory to identify a different kind of hog.

Want to know why a particular process is up? The Image Name and Description columns should help. To make the Description column readable, expand the Task Manager window by dragging the right side of it further to the right. Then expand the Description column by dragging the edge of its header to the right, as well.

If the Description still doesn’t help, visit ProcessLibrary.com and search there.

Before you kill a process, make sure that everything you’re currently working on is saved to the hard drive. Then select the process and click the End Process button. After you’ve read the scary warning, click the other End Process button.

Be warned: This may crash a program. But it probably won’t.

If you want to keep a process from loading in the future, you’ll have to identify what program loads the process, and remove that program.

Read the original forum discussion.

Contributing Editor Lincoln Spector writes about technology and cinema. Email your tech questions to him at , or post them to a community of helpful folks on the PCW Answer Line forum. Follow Lincoln on Twitter, or subscribe to the Answer Line newsletter, e-mailed weekly.

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4 Solutions to Fix Too Many Background Processes in Windows 10

By Alisa | Follow | Last Updated November 15, 2021

Windows 10 computer is slow down and there are too many background processes in Windows 10? Check the 4 methods in this tutorial to allow you reduce unwanted background processes in Windows 10, so as to make computer run faster and release more system resource for other programs.

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If you open Task Manager in Windows 10, you will see a long list of background processes. Wonder whether it is possible to reduce some background processes in Windows 10 to fix computer slow problem and free up more system resources for running other programs.

Below we provide 4 methods to help your fix too many background processes Windows 10.

How to Fix Too Many Background Processes in Windows 10

Generally background processes are Microsoft software services and third-party software services. To reduce unnecessary background processes in Windows 10, you can stop those software services.

Solution 1. Reduce Background Processes Using Task Manager

You can press Ctrl + Shift + Esc keyboard shortcut to open Task Manager in Windows 10. In Task Manager window, you can tap Process tab to see all running applications and processes incl. background processes in your computer. Here, you can check all Windows background processes and select any unwanted background processes and click End task button to terminate them temporarily.

You can identify and end high-resource processes by checking their CPU and Memory usage rate in Task Manager. You can end those unnecessary third-party software and services which consume the most computer resources. But, you should pay attention not to end vital system processes in Task Manager.

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Solution 2. Strip Down Windows 10 Startup Processes

Many system tray startup programs like antivirus software are listed under Background processes in Task Manager. You can also use Windows Task Manager application to remove some system tray software from the Windows startup. This is also a way to fix too many background process in Windows 10.

Step 1. You can press Windows + X key and choose Task Manager to open it. (Related: Task Manager Not Responding)

Step 2. Tap Startup tab, and select any system tray program you don’t want to include in Windows startup and click Disable to remove it from Windows startup.

Solution 3. Disable Third-Party Software Services from Windows Startup

Under background process in Task Manager window, you may find many third-party software services. If you right-click one service and click End task button, it will temporarily disable it, and the service will turn on again next time you restart your computer.

To make sure that they don’t start again when computer restarts, you need to go to Windows Services to disable them.

Step 1. To open Windows services, below are two easy ways:

In Task Manager window, find the software service you want to disable under Process Expand and right-click the target service and choose Open Services.
You can press Windows + R, type msc in Run dialog, and hit Enter to open Windows Service Manager.

Step 2. Then you can find and double-click the service to open its Properties dialog, and select Disabled option in the drop-down list next to Startup type.

Step 3. Click Apply button and click OK to apply the changes. This should help you reduce background processes Windows 10.

Solution 4. Free up Resources Windows 10 through System Configuration

You have a quick way to disable all non-Microsoft services to fix too many background processes Windows 10, namely, to use Windows System Configuration tool.

Step 1. Press Windows + R on the keyboard, type msconfig, and hit Enter to open System Configuration window.

Step 2. Tap Services tab, and click Hide all Microsoft services to check it.

Step 3. Then you can click Disable all button, and click Apply and OK button to disable all non-Microsoft services.

Verdict

With the 4 solutions above, you can fix too many background processes in Windows 10 and free up more system resources for your computer.

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How many processes should my PC be running?

There is no 'right' number - you have what you need. The whole idea behind processes is to break large programs in many small pieces known as processes, and then execute only the processes that are needed.