So as soon as I bootup about 3gb of ram is being used with nothing supposed to be launching off of bootup. Looking at all the processes running, there are a lot that starts off with some type of Service host in the name. There’s like 60 of them? Is this A virus? Microsoft? How do i remove all this shit?
svchost.exe is a generic executable for the services that are enabled. Its nothing to worry about specifically. You can run services.msc in your run prompt to view what is enabled and running.
After I boot my Windows 10 desktop 9 GB is in use. (Honestly, not all of that is Windows, the rest is junk like Nvidia, Battlenet, Steam etc.)
So?
Windows 10 adapts to how much system RAM is available. If you booted it with 2 GB it wouldn’t start much of anything.
Ah, also, don’t start this. First you try to turn off some services, then you’re removing other stuff, then you’re turning off virtual memory.
Before you know it you’re running a Windows that can’t install updates and crashes on most everything because you removed the only thing that installed .NET 4.5.7 (or whatever, that’s made up) and you have a completely useless copy of Windows. You may as well skip that pain and run Arch Linux.
In my opinion if you want to run Windows, then just run Windows. In the most general, default option kind of way possible.