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ShiftZZ

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I am confused as to the number of Background processes running, currently 80 plus Windows processes 107.

Is there a tool that can determin which ones relly need to be running?
 
Try shutting them down one at a time.
The essential ones will restart (or the PC will shut down!)
 
I’m serious. I never expected it to become so easy.

Just my opinion!

Not trying to ram it down any throats. Just what I found.

Tony

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Buy an Apple from your local store when they tell you "Apples don't get viruses"..as my sister-in-law found to her cost. Seriously...3 times the price for hardware you can buy anywhere???
 
PsychoticBadger said:
Buy an Apple from your local store when they tell you "Apples don't get viruses"..as my sister-in-law found to her cost. Seriously...3 times the price for hardware you can buy anywhere???
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Who says Apple devices don’t get viruses, it’s true they are less impacted and a virus or malware is normally down the the user clicking on mail bait

The point about a Mac is they just work no mess no fuss

Apple make the devices and make the software which makes the whole process of owning one simples

By a windows machine and your constantly doing separate upgrades for windows intel and other drivers.
 
The salesman that conned my sister-in-law out of £2000...plenty of programs will do all your updates in one on windows...but if you move to Linux...you're not at the mercy of data farming greedy corporations...but if you're happy with what you have that's what matters....
 
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By a windows machine and your constantly doing separate upgrades for windows intel and other drivers.
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I don't know when you last had a Windows machine? Intel, and other drivers get shipped out with updates... Just like Apple.

I find it strange that when I had to support Mac's for the design department in our building that "had to have Mac's", just three of them took over 10% of the IT support effort when we had over 250 Windows machines spread across 8 locations. We eventually got them onto very high spec Windows machines and they were delighted with the performance and upgradability and saved a head in the IT support function.

I also have a long background with many flavours of UNIX. OSX is simply Apple's proprietary version of UNIX. Linux started from the same base system years ago. Do not believe the Apple make the devices and make the software because it is not true. There are also a huge number of other bits of software that run on them, that are not built by Apple.

I am not knocking Apple especially if people also have iPhones, but they are not immune from viruses, locked out programs or even system crashes, albeit they generally restart so the user possibly does not notice. However had a MacBook brought to the village hall for a presentation last night, and it was a dogs breakfast to attach to the sound system and video projection. However, a few months ago, Ejaydee of this forum did a similar presentation with exactly the same setup and it worked fine. Don't ask me why.

Oddly enough the comment about mail bait applies to both operating systems.

You spend your money how you wish, but do not assume that what is right for you is right for everyone, or even most people.

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Totally agree regarding mail bait etc people need to be more aware and careful.

Apple choose and ‘know’ what the components are in there machines, I totally get they don’t manufacture every component but who does these days? the end user does not have access to fiddle with them which is one reason they are so robust. Even most amateurs can re-build a Mac if they need too and the support if you need it is in the main exemplary.

Microsoft saw the light and followed Apple in having their own high end machines

I do have a windows 10 and yes you update windows, you update intel and other drivers. Also use a SAN storage which is unix auto updates and need very little feeding and watering.

We run Apple within our business and absolutely no issues, zip zero the machines have all lasted longer than any windows device we had previously, the reliability since 2007 has been immeasurable. We started with one machine as a small server and now we have a range of Mac Mini and Mac Pro’s

It’s often the IT ‘professionals’ who do not like Apple as it gives them less access which often is a good thing.

The world is full of choices and ours is an Apple business and household, it also means that we have great reliability no mess no fuss
 
Steering the thread slightly away from the Apple evangelist v Apple basher conversation.... :D

Win 11 will run a greater or lesser number of processes depending on what's running at any given time.

Something around 200 is pretty normal I would say.

If you've got some that might be interfering then you can do a clean boot which is similar to booting in Safe Mode but it gives you extra control on what runs at startup.

If it's not causing you problems then don't worry about it ShiftZZ
 
meanders said:
Quibble away Karl. :LOL: If I remember correctly, and it's a long time ago, but surely Linux evolved out of Minix?
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Sorry no, he wrote it because Minix was not available for free and he could not alter it. Minix was used at his university. Linux is a clean OS written from scratch even Tanembaum says there is no Minix source code in Linux.
Linux wanted a free OS that he could tinker with and write drivers for his own hardware without the huge expense of a License. Minix also had the limitation that it was 16 bit and Linus wanted a 32 bit OS supporting the 386 cpu.

Minx is a Micro Kernel architecture which is slow, Linux is a monolithic kernel.

I could go on, but those should be enough :)


There is no intersection between MacOS and Minix, and no intersection between Minix and Linux other than Torvalds used Minix at university.

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Windows 11 is a very good OS for my opinion. Its stable and has good Taskbars and looks pretty well
 

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