Processes record?

[Fulmar]

Stayed at the in-law's a couple days ago and had to transfer some files off their old desktop to their new Dell Inspiron 1525 (2ghz C2D and 2gb ram).  Of course it was a Vista system but I thought it was running particularly slow.  Checked the task manager and found 84 processes running.   

What's your record (non-virus/spyware system)?

[SIK1]

Whoa, that's a lot of processes running. Was the machine idle or was tasked with something? Is it a brand new system fresh from Dell? BTW I will never buy another Dell.

My game rig has 18 processes running when I'm playing AH.

My other comp has 34 at idle.

[TilDeath]

Stayed at the in-law's a couple days ago and had to transfer some files off their old desktop to their new Dell Inspiron 1525 (2ghz C2D and 2gb ram).  Of course it was a Vista system but I thought it was running particularly slow.  Checked the task manager and found 84 processes running.   

What's your record (non-virus/spyware system)?

Bet about 1/3 to 1/2 are Dell related

[Fulmar]

IE was open along with itunes, there was a lot of pre-installed useless crap on it.  I can't remember everything that was in the task manager.  The computer was 3-4 months old maybe?  All these startup programs they load on computers are just as bad as spyware as in terms of performance loss.

Has anyone developed a theory based on the number of cores on a processor is directly related with the amount of preinstalled startup software on off the shelf machines?

[Skuzzy]

iTunes,..ARRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!

The most I have had to deal with on a customer computer was 102.

[Masherbrum]

iTunes,..ARRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!

The most I have had to deal with on a customer computer was 102.

102?  Holy watermelon Roy!   

I installed iTunes on my old PC and deleted it within 10 minutes.   I noticed that coupled with Quicktime, it brought a then fast PC in 2006, to a halt.  I tried WMP 11 on this current machine and reverted back to 9, less crap to bog this one down with.   Too many "network" services attached. 
 

[AirFlyer]

78 I believe on a fresh Vista computer. Helped them shave it down some but since it was Vista I could only do so much. 

Also, always been a WMP 10 person myself, 9 was good to and 11 just blows.

[Masherbrum]

For whatever reason, I cannot upgrade to 10.   I'll keep trying but it keeps coming back with an installation error. 

[Mustaine]

I had a screen shot of my dad's with over 100, I can't find it right now and I can't remember the exact number... I want to say 115, but it wasn't a round number like that.

that was on an XP machine.

3 older printers with software running looking for them, 5 different anti-spyware / anti-virus programs, it had java, itunes, shockwave, and some other stuff all looking for updates automatically. it was a mess