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Computer help: Slow windows opening & video screen refreshing, CPU usage
Slow windows opening & video screen refreshing, CPU usage
by ahw30045 - 8/7/05 3:08 PMI am running Windows XP Home SP2 on Velocity Micro PC at 3.0 GHz with 1 GB RAM, Bus clock of 200 MHz an American Megatrends BIOS 1005.003. The display uses Intel 82915G/GV/910 GL Express Chipset. I am using MS Office 2003 SP1.
I have a problem with some programs opening slowly and with some Windows screens being slow to update when switching between open programs or opening new ones. I readily confess that I have a lot of programs loaded in the system tray.
One thing I don’t understand is the reported CPU usage in Windows Task Manager: I regularly have the CPU usage reported between 50-60%, but with the main user being System Idle Process (using 75-95% during the times I observed above.) Why is “Idle” so busy?
Are there any good free PC Performance testing programs?
System Idle Process % is usually high,
by _Ender - 8/7/05 3:18 PM In reply to: Slow windows opening & video screen refreshing, CPU usage by ahw30045my System Idle Process is at 99%, no worries, that's the way it should look. If you have loads of applications and processes in the background, your system may slow down, even with 1 GB RAM. Go into task manager, check how many applications and processes you have running. Close those that you do not need. Do not attempt to close the system ones, just close those listed with your user name under processes tab
Should CPU be running at 50%?
by ahw30045 - 8/7/05 4:16 PM In reply to: System Idle Process % is usually high, by _EnderShould CPU be running at 50%? I understand the high Idle %; it is the overall that concerns me.
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