All I can say is WOW!
I finally kept my promise to myself and restored my system partition to an image made back in Nov 2009 (that's just before I installed a Returnil promo... and my machine was always a little flaky after that even after an uninstall with Revo.. Bad Returnil )
I feel a little bit naked now and notice just how many installed promo programs I've accumulated in 16 months.
See that's what happens when you regularly visit a forum like this one. ""Oh, look! gotta get a license for THAT!"I don't remember all the details, but before I did the restore, I had about 60-70 processes running under XP SP3 all the time with a baseline of 500-600 MB RAM in use.
Last night, with only Notepad and Task Manager running -- no AV installed -- TM reported this:
Now I get to determine which programs I actually will reinstall. I think I'll just ask myself as I go down the list of asking just how often I actually used such and such app.Handles 7,895
Threads 402
Processes 37
Commit Charge 241,912
Kernel 59,012
Paged 46,012
Nonpaged 12,9884
PF Usage 236 MB
And in case you're wondering why no AV was installed on that image, whenever I'm about to install a new AV I always completely uninstall what I was using before and then make a system image... just in case. Makes life much easier.