The amount of processes running on a windows OS reached 'ludicrous speed' many years ago. Most of these are invisible to the user, doing things like telemetry,

The amount of processes running on a windows OS reached 'ludicrous speed' many years ago. Most of these are invisible to the user, doing things like telemetry, hardware interaction, and low level and mid level OS services. A quick inspection of the details tab in my task manager shows around 200 processes, only half of which are browser. And starting a web browser with one page results in around half a dozen processes Every user is now a multi-core user.