I don't know why or how to control this, but for reason I have 8 instances of Splice running when I only ran it one time. I have 10 google chrome instances running that I don't even know what are for, because I only have 1 opened tab and a bunch of othe shit I have no idea why it's there. I just started my PC connected and come here so its not I opened. Any way to manage this crap?

 

Download the Free CCleaner www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner/download

Look at the image below and disable the startup entries!!!

 

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you need sysinternal suite

its free

its on microsoft's site, its clean and safe to use

it gives you the abilities to see whats going on - on your computer, and to manage, disable and/or kill malicious,rogue or simply annoying programs.

you will need at a minimum to understand ProcessExplorer, put it in your start up menu.
it will show you every process running on your computer, and you can kill it or disable it, you can decide which core it runs on(affinity) and at which priority.

you will need Autoruns, which will let you see "All" programs that start when your computer starts up, as well as selective groups, you can disable bits of old programs that are no longer installed but still autorun at startup.

you will need TCPVIEW as well.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/

 

here's an entry point for the reading challenged, to get some videos to explain the tools, by the man who built them.

 

I don't know about Splice, but Chrome opens several processes for things like background tasks, extensions, and open pages. If that bugs you, then just kill Chrome, but it's working as expected.

When running Chrome (or other Chromium-based browsers) you can press Shift+Esc to access Chrome's task manager, most of the things listed there show up as separate processes. But you can't trust the memory usage there (or in task manager/Process Explorer), because there's several kinds of memory usage, shared, private, virtual, cached etc. If you really, really need to calculate these, then there's Windows performance counters, but you'll have to code/script it yourself for your case.

So, just kill it (or at least close some tabs) if you're running out of memory. If the browser is using too much CPU then look up some tab suspender extensions if you really need Chrome to be open.

*edit:* clarification

 

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I'd start simple with Startup items (in Task Manager) as pointed out by @Radio - don't hesitate to disable everything except your audio interface driver, graphic card driver, wifi, touchpad etc..

then check services.msc (Windows Services) for startup services, it's a long list where you can mess a lot, but if you're unsure don't change all at once, just make notes on which you changed and if anything breaks after next boot,

third thingy, even more complicated and intimidating is taskschd.msc (Task Scheduler) which shows you folders with lists of stuff like automatic periodic browser updates, periodical software license checks and such, again you can disable whatever you want, just make notes in case of anything breaks after next boot

 

Many programs require multiple background processes - nuking those won't help. One alternative is to automatically lower the CPU & I/O priority of (background) processes using something like Process Lasso or Prio - but: you're going to do more harm than good if you don't know what you're doing.

I find those useful for automatically deprioritising background tasks like compilers, archivers, audio/video encoders, cloud sync, downloaders - that sort of thing.

 

Thanks everyone I appreciate the input. I have a paid copy of CCleaner didn't even know I could do that with it.