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When I open the task manager and go to processes... about how many should be running? I am assuming it depends on what I have running on the computer at the time, yes? As an example I have Avast, aim, yahoo, firefox and Quintissential MP3 player going at the moment, and obviously I am connected to the internet via cable internet, but I have 49 processes running. Is that...normal? Also, if I had just pulled this PC out of the box and started it up with just Windows and no added in features, about how many would be running?


Also in the TM, when I click on the performance tab, it shows that I am using 1.26GB PF Usage. What the hell does that mean? Is that a lot?

Commit charge, down at the bottom of the TM says 1291M/1462M. What the hell does that mean?

Thanks for humoring the retard.

I have 50 processes running this very moment, with AIM and Firefox open, my internet being wireless, and a few various taskbar programs I have on at all times.

And opening up the Help for Task Manager and doing a quick search...

PF Usage:
The amount of paging file being used by the system. If your computer is running near the maximum, you can increase the page file size.

Commit Charge:
Memory allocated to programs and the operating system. Because of memory copied to the paging file, called virtual memory, the value listed under Peak may exceed the maximum physical memory. The value for Total is the same as that depicted in the Page File Usage History graph.

50 processes isn't excessive (my old Windows install had about 30 after startup); if you're unsure about what is running you can post a Hijack This log.

Also in the TM, when I click on the performance tab, it shows that I am using 1.26GB PF Usage. What the hell does that mean? Is that a lot?

The pagefile is a bit of harddrive your computer uses to dump information that doesn't need to be in RAM at the moment (or plain doesn't fit). How much RAm do you have to begin with?