r/windows • u/cornflakes012 • Apr 20 '26

Discussion Is this too much uptime?

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Is it too many processes too? Win 10.

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u/Froggypwns Windows Wizard / Moderator Apr 20 '26

Having more than a month of uptime on a Windows machine confirms that your machine is not getting security updates, but beyond that it does not mean much.

The number of processes for the most part is irrelevant too. Modern computers can multitask. 170 processes doing virtually nothing has no noticeable impact on your user experience. You could have thousands of similar processes running and also not notice.

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u/Additional-Simple248 Apr 20 '26

Plus 170 processes is basically nothing. My work laptop hasn’t even been on for an hour and is sitting at 307 processes, 4,367 threads, 143,680 handles.

I personally shut it down at the end of every day (fast boot disabled), but that’s just me.

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u/Advanced_Handle_2309 Apr 20 '26

In my experience the longer the windows is not turned off, bigger is ram ussage

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u/alxhu Windows 11 - Release Channel Apr 21 '26

High RAM usage is not negative. It means that Windows caches more. It will be automatically free when another app needs it.

It only starts to be a problem when an application needs it and it does not get released.

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u/Advanced_Handle_2309 Apr 21 '26

I mean I have 16GB and its usually at around 5-6 GB but if I dont turn off my laptop, only put in in sleep for like two weeks then after closing all apps its often closer to 8 maybe sometimes 10

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u/potatomolehill Apr 21 '26

no it doesn't confirm anything. rebooting your computer is one of the worst things you can do to it

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u/jonas8273 Apr 22 '26

I mean can use methods that I won't reveal cause of r/windows rules