[Wanderer2]

Low VM is also a sign of a spyware/malware infection. Make sure you are virus and spyware free.

[flavallee]

To answer favallee question, I see 34 possesses

Suzy:

34 processes running in the Windows Task Manager isn't bad at all.

I have 28 processes running in my Gateway desktop with Windows XP, but I run a lean startup load.

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