- Running at 100% all the time?
- Posted by bmoney13 on October 15th, 2005
I have a laptop with windows xp home edition. I have a 1.2ghz
processor, 256mb memory, and 20gig hdd. My cpu has been running at 100%
all the time for the last couple months. Can anyone tell me what is
wrong. The two processes that say they take up all the percentage
points are system and system idle process. Wtf? Do I need more memory,
is it because I have music? Even if I delete all the music and totally
redo everything I still run at 100%.
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bmoney13
- Posted by bmoney13 on October 15th, 2005
bmoney13 Wrote:
> I have a laptop with windows xp home edition. I have a 1.2ghz
> processor, 256mb memory, and 20gig hdd. My cpu has been running at 100%
> all the time for the last couple months. Can anyone tell me what is
> wrong. The two processes that say they take up all the percentage
> points are system and system idle process. Wtf? Do I need more memory,
> is it because I have music? Even if I delete all the music and totally
> redo everything I still run at 100%.
Oh, and I still have and I am only using 55% of my hdd! I still have
like 8.5 gigs free!
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bmoney13
- Posted by Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\) on October 15th, 2005
Are you looking at the little gauge in the notification area?.. is it all a
light green colour?.. when you run your mouse pointer over it, does it state
that CPU usage is 100%?..
Do you have Seti running, or maybe a screensaver like 'Holding Pattern'?..
have you cleaned out your system by running your anti-spyware programs?
BUT, If you are looking at the 'processes' list, 'system idle' should be at
around 98-99%.. this is normal..
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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User
"bmoney13" <bmoney13.1wxn9z@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
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>
> bmoney13 Wrote:
>> I have a laptop with windows xp home edition. I have a 1.2ghz
>> processor, 256mb memory, and 20gig hdd. My cpu has been running at 100%
>> all the time for the last couple months. Can anyone tell me what is
>> wrong. The two processes that say they take up all the percentage
>> points are system and system idle process. Wtf? Do I need more memory,
>> is it because I have music? Even if I delete all the music and totally
>> redo everything I still run at 100%.
>
> Oh, and I still have and I am only using 55% of my hdd! I still have
> like 8.5 gigs free!
>
>
> --
> bmoney13
- Posted by Gerry Cornell on October 15th, 2005
You can disregard System Idle as that is the difference between 100% and
the sum of all running processes.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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"bmoney13" <bmoney13.1wxn9z@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
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> bmoney13 Wrote:
>> I have a laptop with windows xp home edition. I have a 1.2ghz
>> processor, 256mb memory, and 20gig hdd. My cpu has been running at
>> 100%
>> all the time for the last couple months. Can anyone tell me what is
>> wrong. The two processes that say they take up all the percentage
>> points are system and system idle process. Wtf? Do I need more
>> memory,
>> is it because I have music? Even if I delete all the music and
>> totally
>> redo everything I still run at 100%.
>
> Oh, and I still have and I am only using 55% of my hdd! I still have
> like 8.5 gigs free!
>
>
> --
> bmoney13
