[SOLVED] Tasks Abruptly Go Into Background

[gamer097]

Ok, so I am using my PC for gaming, keeping task manager open and all to keep an eye on how it's performing, but then abruptly, it registers everything open except itself as background tasks, even spreading out certain grouped programs, and also slowing down said programs quite a lot. After some time, this does return to normal, and then sometime later, it happens again.

What The Error Looks Like (I use 4k desktop resolution so you may need to zoom if there's a certain out of place process.)

I have already done multiple malware scans with MalwareBytes and only have had false positives show up for game mods and all that.

Windows Process Explorer doesn't register the tasks as in the background when this happens either.

Specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1400
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
RAM: 16 GB
HDD: 1 internal 1TB, 2 external 4TB, 1 external 2TB (1TB has OS installed on it)

 

[Colif]

Are any of these active on desktop? A lot of the processes listed appear to be background anyway. if discord is closed and reduced to desktop I have 5 background processes for instance. Opera uses chrome engine so its 20 odd processes looks about right.

I don't see anything wrong there?

Actually suspended apps show with the little blue symbol so you only have 2 showing.

if you are gaming it might be giving resources to the game instead of background processes.

 

[gamer097]

Are any of these active on desktop? A lot of the processes listed appear to be background anyway. if discord is closed and reduced to desktop I have 5 background processes for instance. Opera uses chrome engine so its 20 odd processes looks about right.

I don't see anything wrong there?

Actually suspended apps show with the little blue symbol so you only have 2 showing.

if you are gaming it might be giving resources to the game instead of background processes.

Discord and Opera were open and in use during the screenshot. I was currently watching a video on YouTube when it did this and made the video fail to load. I've had this sort of background bug pop up while gaming as well, and it always made the game freeze for a few seconds when it happened, some of them stuttering after the freeze as well. Once I even had this happen while the computer was idling and doing nothing.

 

[Colif]

i left pc on all day to check this but I left it looking at memory total and unless you highlight the name header, it doesn't show the categories so you can't tell whats background or not.

Process explorer shows them via the colors.

• New Objects (Bright Green) – When a new process shows up in Process Explorer, it starts out as bright green.
• Deleted Objects (Red) – When a process is killed or closes it will usually flash red right before deleting.
• Own Processes (Light Blueish) – Processes running as the same user account as Process Explorer.
• Services (Light Pink) – Windows Service processes, although it’s worth noting that they might have child processes that are launched as a different user, and those might be a different color.
• Suspended Processes (Dark Gray) – When a process is suspended it can’t do anything. You can easily use Process Explorer to suspend an application. Sometimes crashed apps will briefly show up in gray while Windows is handling the crash.
• Immersive Process (Bright Blue) – This is just a fancy way of saying that the process is a Windows 8 application using the new APIs. In the screenshot earlier you might have noticed WSHost.exe, which is a “Windows Store Host” process that runs Metro apps. For some reason Explorer.exe and Task Manager will also show up as immersive.
• Packed Images (Purple) – these processes might contain compressed code hidden inside of them, or at least Process Explorer thinks that they do by using heuristics. If you see a purple process, make sure to scan for malware!

https://www.howtogeek.com/school/sysinternals-pro/lesson2/

It doesn't seem to see Background Processes at all. Its not a classification as far its concerned.
As far as windows is concerned, programs only have 3 states. Running, suspended, not running.
Running are in ram and using resources
Suspended are in ram but not active
Not running aren't in ram.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ar...-with-background-tasks-and-extended-execution

https://www.howtogeek.com/405806/windows-task-manager-the-complete-guide/