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Windows processing speed revisited...
Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by ZoneII
(3 messages posted)
I apologize for posting a question similar to one that I previously posted but I
think I may have worded the previous one incorrectly. The response I received was
informative and I appreciate it but I am still seeking an understanding of something.....Some
programs that I run in Vista run so slowly that they show as 0% CPU in Task Manager,
i.e., they are running at less than 1%. Meanwhile, I can have no other jobs running
and my new PC is at 98-99% idle. That just doesn't make sense to me. I appreciate
the response I got in the previous message that explained that some software is not
programmed to run best with a quad processor like I have. That makes sense. But
even if they are using only one of the processors, why would they utilize so little
CPU? It was also explained that I should see a big difference when I am running
multiple programs but if programs are running so slowly when no other applications
are running, they are going to run slow when other apps are running. As an example,
I started a Windows Defender Scan and a Avast! virus scan at about 3:00 this afternoon.
It is now past 10:00P.M and they are still creeping along at less than 1% CPU usage
while my system is idling. Changing their priority in Task Manager has no effect.
In fact, I set them at high priority. They are so slow that I had to turn off
my sleep mode setting and I will have to let my PC run all night and maybe well into
tomorrow to finish the scans without interruption. It's hard for me to imagine that
this is right. I could understand this if they were using all of the CPU for one
processor but they are hardly using any CPU at all. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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