re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 12:46 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Clifford (3 messages posted) No, I believe that Sabrina's problem is real. I have the same problem. When no processes are running, the idle process should indeed consume all the available processor cycles. However this CPU time should not be accounted for in CPU usage on the performance tab, (otherwise it would always total 100%!). I my case, the only process logging time is the idle process, but the CPU usage is high. It never goes below about 22% in XP (compared with about 2% on NT), and often goes much higher (60-70%), and the system becomes very sluggish. The idle process should be ready to relinquish CPU to active processes at any time. If you select "show kernel times" from the "view" menu in Task Manager, it indicates that almost all the CPU cycles are accounted for by kernel time. I can only imagine that this is a driver problem, but I have not located it, but the problem may have arisen after installing a USB ADSL modem, but I have not confirmed this yet. 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