Is this the right place for this? If not, I apologise and hope you can send it where it belongs. Thank you.
I have a newish not quite a year old laptop and of late it's started overheating and autoshutdowning. Is 57 processes a lot? I have no idea but would be very grateful if an expert - I as I'm sure is obvious by now am totally ignorant of these matters - could give this list the once over and tell me which if any I could get rid of, and how. Very many thanks in advance.
Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage
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System Idle Process 0 Console 0 28 K
System 4 Console 0 296 K
smss.exe 680 Console 0 1,156 K
csrss.exe 728 Console 0 12,272 K
winlogon.exe 760 Console 0 1,796 K
services.exe 804 Console 0 13,280 K
lsass.exe 816 Console 0 1,764 K
ati2evxx.exe 1000 Console 0 15,184 K
svchost.exe 1020 Console 0 29,660 K
SZServer.exe 1056 Console 0 55,660 K
svchost.exe 1156 Console 0 30,440 K
svchost.exe 1260 Console 0 61,180 K
ati2evxx.exe 1332 Console 0 18,284 K
svchost.exe 1416 Console 0 29,064 K
svchost.exe 1532 Console 0 28,832 K
WLTRYSVC.EXE 1664 Console 0 8,064 K
BCMWLTRY.EXE 1676 Console 0 29,112 K
aawservice.exe 1684 Console 0 1,556 K
explorer.exe 492 Console 0 72,032 K
WLTRAY.EXE 1228 Console 0 36,252 K
stsystra.exe 1244 Console 0 32,100 K
CLI.exe 1252 Console 0 5,900 K
Apoint.exe 1356 Console 0 34,248 K
jusched.exe 1404 Console 0 31,484 K
SpywareTerminatorShield.E 1428 Console 0 29,068 K
avgnt.exe 1340 Console 0 1,500 K
Reminder.exe 1504 Console 0 36,512 K
dopvs.exe 1512 Console 0 39,208 K
ApMsgFwd.exe 1484 Console 0 10,356 K
ctfmon.exe 1572 Console 0 23,860 K
uTorrent.exe 1592 Console 0 38,092 K
hidfind.exe 1628 Console 0 13,032 K
msnmsgr.exe 1632 Console 0 4,020 K
ApntEx.exe 1648 Console 0 22,076 K
conime.exe 1908 Console 0 24,220 K
SpywareTerminatorUpdate.e 2208 Console 0 41,980 K
AWC.exe 2236 Console 0 67,868 K
wweb32.exe 2388 Console 0 24,680 K
spoolsv.exe 2468 Console 0 37,172 K
sched.exe 2552 Console 0 852 K
svchost.exe 3028 Console 0 30,976 K
avguard.exe 3244 Console 0 10,648 K
mDNSResponder.exe 3284 Console 0 24,092 K
schedule.exe 3388 Console 0 31,452 K
jqs.exe 3548 Console 0 1,412 K
MDM.EXE 3616 Console 0 25,040 K
RichVideo.exe 3796 Console 0 24,824 K
SeaPort.exe 3856 Console 0 34,572 K
sp_rsser.exe 3968 Console 0 11,076 K
stacsv.exe 4012 Console 0 18,716 K
svchost.exe 216 Console 0 31,828 K
CALMAIN.exe 372 Console 0 17,076 K
alg.exe 2792 Console 0 25,528 K
CLI.exe 4556 Console 0 4,912 K
opera.exe 5224 Console 0 162,972 K
taskmgr.exe 5384 Console 0 2,052 K
IObit SmartDefrag.exe 4364 Console 0 6,900 K
cmd.exe 2960 Console 0 25,296 K
wmiprvse.exe 4304 Console 0 33,632 K
tasklist.exe 1388 Console 0 4,620 K