Windows Vista task manager and processes question?
Posted by mitzFeb 3
I bought a laptop that has windows vista, and it is new to me. When I look at the task manager it says there are around 66 processes, but when I count them in the task manager I count around 40. What is the deal with this?? Also it says my cpu usage is always fluctuating, but when I look at the processes it doesn’t say any of them are using the cpu. Lastly some of the processes have *32 at the end of them. If anyone has some help on this that would be great thanks!
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some of the processes that are essential to run windows are probably hidden. With the fluctuating CPU and the process thing it’s probably just not updating itself fast enough. The *32 should mean it’s a 32 bit program
you are running Vista 64 and its a 32 bit process for 32*
and for the processes them self’s you need to click to see all processes
normal to fluxate
vista does a lot of disk trashing unless you tweak it not to