![]() Is Task Manager right? (I mean it's Windows!) I am not sure but I think I have seen my computer slow down to a crawl even when the CPU and memory were relatively low. Your logic is solid but one of your assumptions is sketchy to me. But taking steps to run an application in a manner that the vendor did not intend and likely does not support would in my view be ADDING complexity, not reducing it, even if those steps reduce the number of background applications and/or how often they're running. It just means you stand a decent chance of later having to spend even MORE time troubleshooting other issues that might turn out to have been caused by you having done that - and for what? Is all of that time really worth a few MB of RAM? I do understand and fully support the mindset of keeping things as simple as possible to minimize conflicts and the like, so if it WOULD be possible for Macrium to simplify their background processes, then I would be all for it. I've never understood the mindset of going out of your way to prevent certain background applications from running just to save a few MB of RAM. So while I can't answer the question of whether Macrium could design their background applications to be more resource-efficient while delivering the required functionality, I personally don't think that these processes together are taking away any meaningful portion of my system's performance. And on the Memory side, I have 8.5 GB in use out of 32 GB available. ![]() On my own system, where I have very few startup applications and only 3 applications active in the foreground, I nevertheless have over 250 processes running, which have spawned almost 3000 threads. Click on the CPU item and then see how many total processes are running on your system. It might help to put that into perspective by going to the Performance tab of Task Manager. On my own system, the MacriumService, ReflectMonitor, and ReflectUI applications consume a combined total of 0% CPU and about 10 MB of RAM - out of 32 GB that I have available. Make sure you click "More details" in the lower-left corner (if it says "Fewer details", you're already in the right mode) and then look at the Processes or Details tabs to see the CPU and memory utilization of various applications. The accuracy of the claim can be verified by looking at resource utilization monitoring tools as simple as Task Manager. Why not just shut it down during the day and then have it turn on at night when it's scheduled to do its backup task? First, how are we supposed to know that what is reported is accurate? Second, isn't it possible that all these processes consume some additional minimum amount of resources that when added altogether makes the entire computer slow down? Every process are said to be "lightweight and consumes minimal CPU and memory resources". I think the original poster has a good idea. I know this is an old post but hopefully, you or someone else will see it.
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