I will likely try to pare down some of the overhead, but Windows is certainly a memory hog.
I just opened task manager, and between the audio and video drivers, and all the other services and crap, I have right now 4 apps, 138 background processes, and 94 Windows processes.
Adobe has 6 processes running and Photoshop or Acrobat are not running.
The motherboard maker (ASUS) has 15 background processes, even the wireless mouse had 4 processes running. I see 4 background processes just to monitor the memory.
Overall the system seems to be a tiny bit faster that before. Several new programs or Apps or whatever are now part of the system. I have an all new audio app that controls the sound to the speakers. It has a setting for stereo, movies or voice. I am happy to see one for voice. One pet peeve for watching movies is very quiet voices, and then the music and explosions and sound effects blow me out of my seat. For some reason the movies I seem to watch have explosions and gun battles, car chases.
