Damn, How Many Processes?

IIRC, all I needed was "system tray" and"explorer" in older versions of windows. I have like sixty something processes or something running under Vista, WTF?

wasnt that windows 95

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I am currently running only 48 processes in Windows 7 beta. But 738 Threads are running (or whatever they do).
"Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message news:...
IIRC, all I needed was "system tray" and"explorer" in older versions of windows. I have like sixty something processes or something running under Vista, WTF?

Probably. Windows 98 as well. But even in XP I could get by with less than a dozen.
Hell, you don't even need explorer in XP.




"Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message news:...
IIRC, all I needed was "system tray" and"explorer" in older versions of windows. I have like sixty something processes or something running under Vista, WTF?

Whats it matter?
Move on, or wreck your installation by stopping them

"Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
news:...
IIRC, all I needed was "system tray" and"explorer" in older versions of
windows. I have like sixty something processes or something running under
Vista, WTF?

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 17:02:02 -0000, "DL", a top poster who doesn't know
how to quote properly, wrote:

>"Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
>news:...
>IIRC, all I needed was "system tray" and"explorer" in older versions of
>windows. I have like sixty something processes or something running under
>Vista, WTF?
>
>>Whats it matter?
>>Move on, or wreck your installation by stopping them
>>

Actually, smart people can shut off a fair number of them with no
impact on their ability to use Vista. Perhaps you should do some more
learning.

"+Bob+" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 17:02:02 -0000, "DL", a top poster who doesn't know
> how to quote properly, wrote:
>
>>"Anthony Williams" <> wrote in message
>>news:...
>>IIRC, all I needed was "system tray" and"explorer" in older versions of
>>windows. I have like sixty something processes or something running under
>>Vista, WTF?
>>
>>>Whats it matter?
>>>Move on, or wreck your installation by stopping them
>>>
>
> Actually, smart people can shut off a fair number of them with no
> impact on their ability to use Vista. Perhaps you should do some more
> learning.
>
>

Yea, go in there and shut down all the svchost processes!