Looking for help

[Karen Lardi]

Don't know if I am in thr right place to receive help with my computer, bu there goes.

I am having a problem with system idle process. It is taking up 98-100% of the cpu ussage. I have run a registry fix, spyware scan, defrag, ect...nothing has had an effect on the problem. What am I mssing???!!!

Regards,
Karen

 

[LordOfLA]

This is normal. Nothing to worry about

 

[Karen Lardi]

Thanks for your reply. Only problem is this is affecting the performance. Also receiveng lots of fatal errors, and applications just not working until the cpu stops peaking at 100%.

 

[madmatt]

Impossible. That process isn't really consuming any processing power; it's where Windows puts the idle usage.

 

[Karen Lardi]

OK then. Got any ideas as to why the processor seems to be tapped out? Also IE is not functioning properly?

 

[LordOfLA]

Download and run "Hijack THis" from here: http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis

Paste the report it makes into a post here and we'll see what we can do.

 

[kcnychief]

Might I also suggest reading this thread -

http://forum.osnn.net/showthread.php?t=783&highlight=system+idle+process

Gives some background on the system idle process.

 

[lancer]

i cant remember where i got this from or if i wrote it, but it works on my pc to get rid of all useless background tasks, i use it before doing processing.

 

[fitz]

i wonder if he/she has picked up a piece of malware that kicks off a process named "system Idle"

 

[Not Bman]

*off topicish

Once in awhile there comes along a question that I can answer, and well you guys take away my fun. DANG