If you hit control-alt-delete and select task manager from the menu that comes up (button on bottom of little window), it will give you quite a few options. One shows you all the things currently running. Another one shows the processes and their memory usage. I've got about 112 listed in my memory usage part of this thing. You must keep in mind that there are a lot of processes that your computer does that won't be shown. Windows requires quite a bit of your processor. Unfortunately, it seems to require a lot more than other versions of windows. Kristta