Originally posted by: Zenoth
Good points Nothinman. But basically all I wanted to do was to reduce the number of processes to a strict minimum for a proper off-line and basic on-line functionality. When I first installed XP I also had a good number of processes, around 30+ I believe, and that, to me, is "shocking" simply because I never needed that many services running in the background, only eating up some (even if negligible at times) system resources that could be put to better use.
I often heard that Vista's "minimal" amount of processes for a working system is still higher than what can be achieved on XP, that Vista will always inevitably use more resources than XP whatever is done. That I can like with it, but I doubt that 30 to 32 processes is "the best" I can do without screwing up the system. And, again, to me, 450MB to 480MB of my RAM used for the OS is significantly higher than XP, which used around 260MB after I disabled the useless services. And in a game like Oblivion, with the textures modifications installed, that extra 250MB taken by Vista compared to XP will be lacking, because in such a game even 2GB of RAM sometimes is asking for more.