1) Why does my computer get messed up after, say, 8 months without formatting my HDD? I keep defragging, registry cleaning, uninstalling unused software, erasing the temporary files and all that, but, still, it's less fast and/or reliable after a certain period of time. Why does this happen?
2) What is the usual number of active processes at a time? I once said in a forum that I hve 41 processes after start up and people told me that they were WAY too many (not even servers have that many). How many do you have, and how could I reduce them? Most of them use the "user name" SYSTEM, and if I ahut them down, my computer crashes, an restarts after 30 secs. What should I do?