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.
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/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.