Chrome's processes are now in the Apps section instead of the BG process section of task manager? Made my laptop lag a lot

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I have been playing using this PC for a long time, and when I play this game (Warframe), I always have my browser (which always has 30+ tabs open, for work stuff) and a torrent client app. Everything always went smooth, no lag at all.

Usually, I only play 1 hour-ish, and then I close the game to rest. But last night, I played for 2 hours+. For the last minutes I played, the game was very lagging. That's why I thought "okay, I've been playing for too long, probably I have to restart my laptop to empty the RAM). I closed the game, but the window wouldn't disappear, so I opened Task manager, which was a pain because it wasn't responding too. I deleted the game process from the Task manager, closed my torrent client (without using TM), and when I switched to Chrome window, it was really lagging even though the game & torrent client were already closed. But I managed to close it.

And when I tried to shut down, it turned out it was "update and shut down", I was like okay, since I wanted to have dinner anyway, so I left my laptop.

Half an hour later, it was off. But starting it on was very slow (which isn't usual). Opening Chrome would make the laptop lag very bad, opening a new tab takes 5 minutes+. I didn't even open my game & torrent client. I thought, oh maybe 30 minutes rest is not enough, so I shut it down and went to bed.

This morning, while I could start my laptop as fast as usual, the Steam "updating steam bar" took forever that I even clicked cancel. Then I opened Chrome, which was also fast. But when I opened the game startup menu (not even the game yet), my laptop was loud, the loudest it's ever been.

But in Task Manager, I realize that something is different with Google Chrome in Task Manager.

Usually, it only has one Google Chrome in the apps section and lots of Google Chrome in the background process section. But now it has Google Chrome (52) in the apps section
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with lots of Google Chromes when I expanded it
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and none in the background process section. Does all of this happen because it used to not open all of them at once? I do realize that all of my tabs are "active", usually I have to click on that tab (especially older tabs that I haven't clicked at all) to reload & get the page.

Usually, it's like this:
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The image is not mine.

How do I fix this? How do I make Chrome send all those processes & pages to background process again? I've turned off Superfetch, even though I was doing fine with it being on before. Oh and is this normal? 130 MB for Windows Defender?
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My problem is similar to his https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/z2ya3elq5xI but too bad there wasn't any solution
 
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that long update time probably meant a version update. Windows probably downloaded 4gb in background, thats why Chrome was laggy I guess

right click start
choose run..
type winver and press enter
what version number are you on? 1803 or 1809?

Chrome: Your 51 is how mine shows, I am on 1803. Chrome all appears in same place.

my antimalware is 83mb
 


Oh, but it's still laggy half an hour after I installed the update though.

My version is 1803.

Yeah, but until yesterday, in task manager, my chrome looks like the 2nd to last pic.
 
its possible its grabbing updated versions of store apps as the version update doesn't include those updates. I just updated to 1809 and PC is still busy doing stuff in background.

Chrome on 1809 shows all its processes below it still. Only part not under it is the Google crash handler. Perhaps it started in 1803 and I never noticed.

check laptop makers web site and see you have latest drivers as win updates sort of expect you to have new drivers. Bios as well.
 
Task manager can show both views at same time, this was my PC before I closed Chrome after a few hours of use - there are background processes called Chrome showing 10 at top and 7 in the inactive

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but then I reopened it and task manager now shows Chrome with 17 at top and none in background processes. If you had only just started Chrome, its possible the parts go inactive if not used and that is why some show in background processes after chrome been open a while.
 


I've been using Chrome for 5 hours now and they are all still on the Apps section and none in the background process 🙁

I feel like, my laptop lags/gets hot faster because all of my current tabs are now "active", instead of what they were used to be: "inactive".

When I opened Chrome, it only loaded the tab after I click on it. Think of Chrome in Android. We can open 50+ tabs in Android without lagging/overheating because the inactive pages doesn't take much of the processor, right?

But now all of them are always already loaded when I open Chrome, so all of them are considered active & consume lots of ram/cpu allocation.

I really want to know how to set those inactive pages to "background" pages 🙁
 
When you go to the Processes tab in Task Manager, you see the processes grouped into three categories: App, Background Process, and Windows Process. How does it decide which process goes into which category?

These are terms that Task Manager simply made up. The system itself doesn't really care what kind of processes they are.

If the process has a visible window, then Task Manager calls it an "App".

If the process is marked as critical, then Task Manager calls it a "Windows Process".

Otherwise, Task Manager calls it a "Background Process".

That's all. Nothing fancy. And completely arbitrary.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20171219-00/?p=97606

Where they show makes no difference, they still running using resources. the only processes not using anything in my picture are above is cortana. that little blue mark next to it in status shows it is suspended.

Perhaps chrome is set to reopen previously open tabs on startup, that would explain why they all there when you start
 


This is true. But it has been like that since a year ago. And no overheating/it didnt take much memory until a few days ago.

My problem is very similar to the user's problem in the google forum i posted above."When i look at it in the windows task manager it only shows up in the apps and uses a lot of memory. It used to run mostly a a background process with the names of the open windows under chrome app in the task veiw. Now all it says is googel chrome under the apps in task manager and has no background processes. "
 
Here is a test: Try running without chrome in background and make sure it is the problem.

Where the processes appear in task manager makes no difference to what resources they use. you can have so called background processes still using CPU/ram
 


Oh I've been doing that ever since I got this problem. My game runs just fine, it's warm (like before), not overheated like since this issue happened. Started to sound a little bit loud an hour into the game, which is also what usually happened before this, and that's a sign for me to quit the game & the sound's back to normal in no time.
 


Asus fx503

intel i5-7300HQ
1 Tb hdd
memory 8gb

i have turned off all of my extensions.
 

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