re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 11:10 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Trent Sherman (3 messages posted) Okay..I'm going to burst everyone's theories right now because I would love a cure, not a theory. Case in point: I've been operating WinXP Pro for over 6th months, NEVER having such a problem with my AMD 955MHz PC, 256MB Ram, 60 GB Drive. What peripherals I have attached are irrelevant. And I've been using a Bellsouth ADSL Speedtouch (USB) modem for over a year "with" software upgrades .. with absolutely no problems. When I upgraded to SP1 Service Pack, and..in addition..after downloading drivers that the winupdate site detected, then (and ONLY THEN) did I start having troubles. Has nothing to do with chip bios upgrades, hardware conflicts or what type of computer your using. Let's kill that part of the thread right now. In the system process menu the following two processes need examining real closely: "winupdmng" and "system idle process". Please note.. Although a person can check off the box that allows you to disable Windows from retrieving Windows Updates, it still loads "winupdmng" upon each system startup anyways..have you noticed that? I have NEVER noticed a process called "WINUPDMNG" until AFTER I installed the SP1 Package from Microsoft. Let's start checking out this theory for a while and drop the others. I couldn't stand in the background any further, watching all these guesses. I'm speaking from experience from having Win Xp Pro for a while now, having a ADSL modem for a while and never having troubles until after Microsoft's REQUIREMENT to have the SP1 Package installed, else nothing would allow us to have further downloads/updates from them. Let me know how everyone does and what they find out. Thanks so much! Trent Sherman orderonline@bellsouth.net Written in response to: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Sabrina: Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 6:37 am) Responses to this message: re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Saturday, July 5, 2003 at 2:52 am) All messages in this thread [show all] System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Sabrina: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 6:37 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Jason Trudeau: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 6:41 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Bob B: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 7:16 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Wed, Oct 2, 2002, 9:54 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Clifford: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 12:46 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Ed Shears: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 7:41 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 9:12 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (M P: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 12:52 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 1:53 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (M P: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 2:29 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 4:57 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (M P: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 8:57 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Mon, Nov 4, 2002, 10:20 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Brittnell: Sat, Nov 9, 2002, 1:21 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Clifford: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 3:23 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Mon, Nov 4, 2002, 10:56 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Clifford: Sat, Nov 9, 2002, 1:40 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sat, Nov 9, 2002, 10:06 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Orlando : Mon, Nov 4, 2002, 2:22 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Wed, Nov 6, 2002, 11:38 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Simon: Wed, Jan 15, 2003, 9:45 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Wed, Nov 6, 2002, 1:11 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Wim Kotze: Mon, Nov 25, 2002, 12:10 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Mon, Nov 25, 2002, 9:46 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Wim Kotze: Wed, Nov 27, 2002, 1:49 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Thu, Nov 28, 2002, 9:59 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Wim Kotze: Fri, Dec 6, 2002, 2:30 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Fri, Dec 6, 2002, 9:32 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (chris: Fri, Jul 4, 2003, 9:15 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (taker: Sat, Mar 6, 2004, 7:11 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (The Mish: Mon, Nov 4, 2002, 10:09 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Wed, Nov 6, 2002, 11:40 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (The Mish: Mon, Nov 4, 2002, 10:21 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (shawn: Fri, Nov 22, 2002, 8:44 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Trent Sherman: Sat, May 17, 2003, 11:10 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sat, Jul 5, 2003, 2:52 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Jeremy: Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 8:55 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 12:07 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Jeremy: Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 5:33 pm) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (C K: Mon, Jul 21, 2003, 9:55 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Khmerster: Fri, Feb 27, 2004, 1:32 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (Tony Norris: Sun, Feb 29, 2004, 3:25 am) re: System Idle Process taking 95% of CPU (P. 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