are these subtle signs or malware/virus?

[u/Only_Humor1081]

im just a little worried but i jus want to be sure yk? i havent really noticed these things running before and my pc feels a little slower than usual. Im no pc expert i just want to be reassured

[u/Middle-Principle-905]

none of the circled processes are malicious, they are standard, core components of windows, settings is the modern windows settings app that handles, as you might've guessed, the settings, the windows default lock screen controls the background and display of your lock screen, search manages the windows search bar and start menu query features, which is why it occasionally uses a bit of cpu/ram when active, also, task manager is not an antivirus, modern viruses can hide very easily under other processes with DLL injection, rendering task manager useless for stuff like this, if you want to know if you actually have viruses use something like malwarebytes or kaspersky virus removal tool