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Group service host processes (lower idle RAM + process count)

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Sets SvcHostSplitThresholdInKB to 64 GB. On systems with more than 3.5 GB RAM, Windows splits every service into its own svchost.exe process, which inflates the process list and per-process overhead. Raising the split threshold above your installed RAM tells Windows to group services back into shared host processes, trimming idle memory and dozens of processes. Trade-off: a crash in one grouped service can affect its neighbours, and Task Manager attribution is coarser. Reboot required.

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Official documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-management/svchost-service-refactoring

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