Worryingly high cpu handles count

[7adolescent]

For a while now, I have noticed that my cpu handles is through the roof. A previous user had asked previously and was assured to be normal, but mine is 70x larger.

Does this indicate something wrong with how I built my PC?

My Specs -

Windows 10 Pro Version 20H2 (64 bit)

Ryzen 5 5600X

RTX 3080

16GB RAM

Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB 

850W PSU

[Guest]

This just indicates that there's a shit load of background tasks running. Now if they are malware or something of the sort is unknown. I'd run Malwarebytes or whatever virus, malware removal tools you have and go from there. 

[Biohazard777]

6 minutes ago, 7adolescent said:

For a while now, I have noticed that my cpu handles is through the roof. A previous user had asked previously and was assured to be normal, but mine is 70x larger.

Does this indicate something wrong with how I built my PC?

My Specs -

Windows 10 Pro Version 20H2 (64 bit)

Ryzen 5 5600X

RTX 3080

16GB RAM

Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB 

850W PSU

I'm surprised your machine hasn't crashed / started to slowdown given that your uptime is 6 days and you are running Windows xD.
I'd start with restarting the PC.

[7adolescent]

1 minute ago, Biohazard777 said:

I'm surprised your machine hasn't crashed / started to slowdown given that your uptime is 6 days and you are running Windows xD.
I'd start with restarting the PC.

Yeah the reason why I posted this in the first place was cause Steam started spazzing randomly.

Its also interesting that it says that my uptime is 6 days, since I do shut down my pc every night. Its a bit of a surprise that I have an uptime of this period of time.

 

That being said, I have now restarted it and its back at 100k, which seems to be normal as indicated from the previously linked post.

 

Thanks for the help

 

[7adolescent]

6 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

This just indicates that there's a shit load of background tasks running. Now if they are malware or something of the sort is unknown. I'd run Malwarebytes or whatever virus, malware removal tools you have and go from there. 

Oooooh I've honestly never heard of Malwarebytes until now. Thanks for the recommendation and your help. 

[Biohazard777]

1 minute ago, 7adolescent said:

Yeah the reason why I posted this in the first place was cause Steam started spazzing randomly.

Its also interesting that it says that my uptime is 6 days, since I do shut down my pc every night. Its a bit of a surprise that I have an uptime of this period of time.

 

That being said, I have now restarted it and its back at 100k, which seems to be normal as indicated from the previously linked post.

 

Thanks for the help

 

No problem, btw shutting down in Win10 is more like putting it to sleep.
To start with a clean state you have to restart.

[AbydosOne]

4 minutes ago, 7adolescent said:

Its also interesting that it says that my uptime is 6 days, since I do shut down my pc every night. Its a bit of a surprise that I have an uptime of this period of time.

For whatever reason, when Windows hybrid-shutdowns (essentially logging off then hibernating), it doesn't reset the counter. If you hold shift when you click shutdown, it forces a normal shutdown.

[7adolescent]

2 minutes ago, Biohazard777 said:

No problem, btw shutting down in Win10 is more like putting it to sleep.
To start with a clean state you have to restart.

 

Just now, AbydosOne said:

For whatever reason, when Windows hybrid-shutdowns (essentially logging off then hibernating), it doesn't reset the counter. If you hold shift when you click shutdown, it forces a normal shutdown.

That's an interesting and unexpected fact to learn! Thanks for your replies.

[Boomwebsearch]

13 minutes ago, Biohazard777 said:

I'm surprised your machine hasn't crashed / started to slowdown given that your uptime is 6 days and you are running Windows xD.
I'd start with restarting the PC.

 

I have had around 2 months of uptime on my laptop because I was using a HDD and used sleep mode to avoid extremely long boot times. Although, you should shutdown and restart your PC at least once a week to avoid potential issues (especially on Windows).

 

8 minutes ago, 7adolescent said:

Oooooh I've honestly never heard of Malwarebytes until now. Thanks for the recommendation and your help. 

I use Glarysoft's Malware Hunter to clean through any present malware on PCs, although have used Malwarebytes and it was pretty good as well, let both of them run and remove any malware (not at the same time necessarily). -->     https://www.glarysoft.com/malware-hunter/