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So I saw somewhere that your CPU should only be processing a certain amount of handles or something like that around 20,000-25,000. In task manager I looked and the handles and it is through the roof (around 50,000) What exactly are "handles" and what do they mean? Also I remember a while back seeing videos that showed how to clean up windows 10 and basically optimize it for performance and I would like to look into that so if anyone has a step by step guide whether that be in text or video form that would be great. I just want the best, fastest performance that I can get.

 

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2 minutes ago, Festive said:

So I saw somewhere that your CPU should only be processing a certain amount of handles or something like that around 20,000-25,000. In task manager I looked and the handles and it is through the roof (around 50,000) What exactly are "handles" and what do they mean? Also I remember a while back seeing videos that showed how to clean up windows 10 and basically optimize it for performance and I would like to look into that so if anyone has a step by step guide whether that be in text or video form that would be great. I just want the best, fastest performance that I can get.

 

" In computer programming, a handle is an abstract reference to a resource. Handles are used when application software references blocks of memory or objects managed by another system, such as a database or an operating system. "  If you want to reduce the number of handles in your task manager simply close unnecessary programs. that being said as long as you have a reasonably fast processor 50000 handles is fine, my pc typically had about 44000. 

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46 minutes ago, Festive said:

So I saw somewhere that your CPU should only be processing a certain amount of handles or something like that around 20,000-25,000. In task manager I looked and the handles and it is through the roof (around 50,000) What exactly are "handles" and what do they mean? Also I remember a while back seeing videos that showed how to clean up windows 10 and basically optimize it for performance and I would like to look into that so if anyone has a step by step guide whether that be in text or video form that would be great. I just want the best, fastest performance that I can get.

 

What do you mean optimize it for performance? Just don't have much programs which start up when windows launches. Have enough RAM and then it'll be fine.

 

No need to optimize it. lol. It is optimized.

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I have about 68k right now.  Just having a lot isn't inherently bad.  Is your idle CPU usage or RAM usage excessively high?  If not, there's no issue :)

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