Task Mgr Is Reporting 50% CPU Utilization While Computer Is Idle
Jul 29, 2005
Task mgr is reporting 50% CPU utilization while computer is idle! Is this normal? Never looked until lately. My computer is a P4 3.2 mhz with 2 gig ram and two 10,000 rpm SATA hard drives.Opening up any file wil take CPU utilization easily up to 80 to 100%.Computer is noticebly slower not sure if from BIOS upgrade (ASUS) or me messing with Performance settings. Right now, I have everything set to Windows optimize my memory.
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Sep 15, 2009
what System idle process means in windows task manager?
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Mar 17, 2008
Has there ever been reports of this hogging resources in XP? I assume it's something that uses the CPU for other OS tasks when not in operation by the user. The problem is even when I'm using the computer it uses 97-99% of CPU.
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Oct 17, 2005
idle system process is running constatly in the task manager i have tryed to run anti virus *after updating* running adaware se personal *after updating* still the idle system process is constantly runing and wont stop. i tryed to end task that wont work
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Aug 12, 2002
make it sound important, because it is after all going to make your PC more secure.click finishnow goto control panel>scheduled tasksdouble click add scheduled taskclick nextat the next screen, click browsebrowse to your new shortcut (ex. c:windowssysdll.ink)select itpick daily and then click nextclick nexttype in a pw for your scheduled taskconfirmclick nextclick finishnow double click on the new scheduled task you just madeclick the schedule tabunder scedule task: select When Idleenter in how long you want your computer to go before it gets lockedclick okyour all set it's a nice little trick, and it beats the hell out of a screensaver password.
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Aug 10, 2005
I have had an issue just crop up on my dell dimension 4550 running xp pro, 2.53 p4 with 1 gig of ram. Seems that everything is fine until I connect to a web page. I can start IE, and everything is fine, utilization is 0-20%, but once I type in a url and hit go, cpu goes to 100%, eventually the web page loads after a few minutes or more(on dial up, 56k) where this only took seconds in the past. Have current virus defintions, running ms antispyware also current. If I finally disconnect from the internet, and close IE, cpu utilization goes back down. I gave up and restored from a ghost image from a month ago back when i know it was working, and it still is doing the same thing and it has me stumped. I was thinking maybe its having hard drive issues, but it works fine unless I connect to the internet. Also, I can simply bring up IE and it works fine, no pegged CPU, but as soon as I connect to my isp and try to load a web page, cpu goes to 100% and does not recover. Looking at task mngr, ieexplorer and explorer.exe are really the only things that are taking all the cpu time.
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Jul 22, 2005
When the computer has been idle for more than about 15 minutes, both IE and Firefox hang, and then say "Page cannot be displayed". Rebooting solves it but what could be the problem?
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Jul 14, 2010
Over the last 2 days, my instance of XP has become extremely slow, essentially unusable. However, when I check the resource manager, CPU utilization is at 1%. I'm not sure what gives, as this happened all of a sudden.Startup takes about 15-20 minutes. Safe mode makes some difference in the execution times, but it is still very slow even in safe mode. For example, it takes approximately 10 minutes to load up the system restore utility. I can get into a command prompt okay and work the file system from there, but that's about all that works quickly. I noticed that there was an automatic update that occurred a day or two ago, since then I think it's been ridiculously slow to use the machine.
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Jul 10, 2005
well i've been having problems with the computer running slow, and ive noticed that the system idle process in task manager always says 99 under the cpu tab, is this normal?
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Sep 11, 2005
When starting the computer from total power down, the computer (Dell dimension 8300) works fine. However when the computer has been left idle for short periods of say 1 hour or more, the the system hangs. All programs and internet/LAN access lock up which requires a full hard boot to enable restart and program access.
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Jun 15, 2010
When I do a totally fresh install of XP SP3 the machine seems to have some background process that constantly uses +/- 33% cpu utilization. - I have installed all the drivers and device manager reports no problems, but still the 33% issue remains. NOT hardware, as everything is ok in either Vista of Windows 7
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Jul 23, 2005
My laptop keyboard has a strange problem. If the computer sits idle for a couple of hours, the keyboard stops working normally. I can't type any text;
however, the keys will respond as shortcut keys. For example, if I open Word and type F, the file menu will appear. My built in touch pad also will not function normally. If I double click on an icon, it brings up the properties screen for that item. When I restart my computer, I am not able to type into the logon screen at all with my keyboard.
I have attached a USB keyboard to my laptop, but I still can't type right away. The only thing that works is for my to restart my computer two or three times, they press CLT-ALT-DEL on my USB keyboard. Most of the time after a couple of tries,I can type into this secondary logon screen with the USB keyboard. Once Windows is open, my regular laptop keyboard works fine again. This is until I leave it idle for a while.
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Oct 26, 2004
1. Open System Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. Click the "Error Reporting" button.
4. Select "Disable Error Reporting"
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Jul 26, 2005
I have a 40GB HDD. It was originally partitioned as C: (Windows - NTFS) 15GB and D: (Data - NTFS) 27GB. I decided to have one of my sporadic forays with Linux, and using a combination of Acronis partition manager and the Windows Computer Management snap-in, did the following: C: (Windows NTFS) 10GB,D: (Data - NTFS) 5GB, E: (Transfer - FAT) 2GB, the remaining free space (20GB) formatted for Linux.I then decided to bin Linux for a while and revert to my previous partition layout. Using Windows Disk management, I removed the Linux partition and created a new partition. Then using Acronis Partition Manager I resized the C: drive to 15GB. Unfortunately, I'd forgotten to repair the MBR from having GRUB on it before I did this, so when it rebooted, I had to then boot up with a W98 floppy and repair the MBR. After having done that, and all the rest of the partition management, I have a size reporting problem! Right-clicking on the C: drive in My Computer shows the previous size as 10GB, as does Acronis.However, if I use Acronis to resize a partition, when I get to allocate the additional space, it shows the correct size! Also in Disk Management, the graphical representation of the partitions shows correctly, but the statistical info in the box above shows the previous configuration.
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Nov 16, 2009
I have this weird problem on my dell lappy. Everytime i reboot, HDD free space goes to some 46-49MB no matter how many movies and files i delete before reboot. First i ran chkdsk and later defragmented but still the problem wont go away.
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Aug 14, 2005
I have just reported an email abuse Zip attached was called “Work and taxes.zip� Because it was obviously suspect, I right clicked it in Outlook to pick up detail for abuse report. In this venue, one sees attachment name + dump plus the fact that it actually came out of.ru/Russia.On looking further, charter .net or charter.com smells pretty bad to me as well. I then blocked the unopened email which supposedly dropped it from server.
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May 17, 2009
I have a error message a hard drive is reporting a SMART event.
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Jun 29, 2005
Every time I try to use Microsoft Works Task Launcher I get an Error Report. When either the 'Send Error Report' or 'Ignore' button is clicked, Microsoft Works immediately closes down. I have disabled Error Reporting in My Computer to no avail, as the error message continues to appear
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Jan 12, 2005
this message comes up. and i am the only user of this computer and i am the administrator, it has been fine before?
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Jan 14, 2007
I share my Internet connection with my son. I'd like to have the Taskbar on his computer show the Local Area Connection icon ( the two little monitors side by side ) the same as mine does, but I've forgotten how to do that.
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Feb 23, 2007
My son was downloading something on the computer last night and he said all these pop ups came up and now on the task bar there is an icon , a shield with a x in the center that says your computer is infected. When I click on ok it says would you like to update your security software and install registry cleaner? Once in a while it keeps popping up from that icon that my computer has detected spyware infection and has corrupted the registry. Virus program shows nothing, well it showed threat of bloodhound and said it cleaned it but that is it. How do I get this off my taskbar and how do I get all the icons off that I dont want to run.
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Feb 6, 2005
I lost the printer icon on my taskbar for an Epson ,anyone know how to get it back? Using Windows XP,haven't seen an error message Dell tech(??) suggested reinstalling software,which didn't help. The icon is still missing in action,it was there a few days ago.
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Mar 9, 2010
I'd like to create a GPO to lock a user's workstation after 15 minutes of inactivity, and force a log off after say 4 hours of inactivity. I figured out how to do both independent of each other, but can't figure out how to enforce both at the same time.
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Jun 23, 2005
I've got celeron 2.4ghz on Gigabte tsr300 and it's very hot.did u know any free program like cpucool to keep it cool?
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Jun 17, 2007
After leaving the computer sit idle for a while, windows doesn't want to do anything after words. It won't run any applications or even shut down/restart. It may also be a hardware problem, i put the computer together a few days ago and have been having this problem ever since. Would there be a way to isolate what the faulty hardware may be if thats the problem?
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Aug 11, 2005
My windows xp computer was in the midst of performing a task then froze.I restarted it and now before it loads the os I get this: windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: (windows root)system32hal.dll How do I reinstall this file and get my system back to normal? or can I restore the system using quick restore?
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Jun 18, 2005
last night i was burning some dvds and my computer stopped responding. i hit alt ctrl del to bring up the task manager to end the program. it ended but it was like in slow motion. ever since then i cant pull up the task manager. it does nothing when i try to open it. also my computer is running really fast and loud like the drive is doing something. i dont know if i have programs running and i dont know about them.
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Jun 22, 2005
Run a scheduled task only when my computer is connected to the internet. I'm running eDNS, and it gives me a hostname lookup error when it's run and not connected. Is there a good way, other than just pinging a host, to determine if i'm connected in a batch file perhaps?
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Nov 23, 2006
Out of no where my computer ceases to be able to multi-task. For example. I am playing a game while listening to music. When I hold down a button in the game to walk the music becomes choppy. I have also noticed that when I am using one program something the CPU usage is usually 88-95% usage on the program which makes it impossible to do anything else while using the program. This all started happening about 2 days after I re-installed my OS.
Also system restore doesn't seem to work. It always says "System restore failed: nothing on your hard drive was changed." but I know that the restore point is different from what I have on my computer right now.
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Sep 6, 2008
My computer seems to be slowing down and hanging up every so often. When I start XP I go into task manager and see bunches of programs runnings. A lot of *.exe files. How do I get rid of them?? How do I know which ones to get rid of? They may be virous, extra junk form previous installs? I do run Nortons anti-virous program. I don't want to reformat and reinstall XP but I may need to.
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Jul 8, 2005
I started getting random popups and my start page had changed, so i ran Microsoft antispyware. When the scan is halfway through my computer reboots. I tried with norton and ad-aware, but they also reboot halfway through the scan. My task manager is also disabled, and my background has changed to a blue screen that says something along the lines of: "System Stopped. System has been stopped due to a serious malfunction. Spyware activity has been detected."
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