re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU
Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 9:54 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(6528 messages posted)
Exactly what Bob has said. If you have a slow computer something else is wrong,
either in the drivers or hardware that may be incomaptible, or problem applications
or software. If you did an upgrade over an old operating system instead of a clean
install, this may be your problem. The idle process has been written about many
times before in this forum. XP isn't the only operating system that has the idle
process built in. It is there for a reason. The idle process takes place when the
processor isn't being sent any other work to do indicating that you have problems
somewhere else in your system preventing the work from getting to your processor
hence, your slow system. The idle process halts the processor saving power and reducing
heat until it gets actual work to do. Look at the performance tab in the task manager
if you want to see actual CPU usage while you are working. C K
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 6:37 am, Sabrina wrote:
>Does anyone know if I can disable this or why it's taking so much of my CPU?
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