CPU Usage shows green & red

[Guest]

My computer has been running very slow and hanging....In task manager the CPU
usage shows both green & red on the graph. Usually the "red" on the bar is
abot 1/3 of the bar. Is this the "norm" The cpu usage also seems to peak at
100% a lot...HELP.Hope I made some sense.

 

[Richard Urban]

Red indicates the kernel usage. You have chosen to display it in the graph
by choosing "display kernel times".

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[jockemup]

It sounds to me like you have one to many apps running in the
background. Try killing a few of these, and you should drop that level
a bit. If you're getting the same message during normal operation, you
obviously need to upgrade your processor.