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I have noticed lately that my pc is becoming dreadfully slow. For that
reason, I installed Process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com. I have
nothing allowed to run in the background at startup other than my antivirus
and other security app's, yet when I would open my task manager with
ctrl/alt/del, with nothing running in the background, it would show my System
Idle Process holding steady at or near 99... however, at the same time, at
the bottom of the window, it shows CPU Usage at an astounding 80 to 90 to
even 100% ! Process Explorer showed me that I have, with no programs running
on my system other than my security junk, there is something called 'Hardware
Interrupts' that is showing to use up to 80% of my CPU... I dont know why
this is happening, or how to remedy the situation, that is why I am here,
asking for your help...any assistance would be greatly appreciated; also,
please bear in mind that I am not a 'techie' or computer wiz, just an old guy
who wants to keep my desktop pc running in the best condition possible...I
know this problem is something that is not supposed to be happening, but
don't know how to fix it...thanks in advance... ~~Bill
reason, I installed Process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com. I have
nothing allowed to run in the background at startup other than my antivirus
and other security app's, yet when I would open my task manager with
ctrl/alt/del, with nothing running in the background, it would show my System
Idle Process holding steady at or near 99... however, at the same time, at
the bottom of the window, it shows CPU Usage at an astounding 80 to 90 to
even 100% ! Process Explorer showed me that I have, with no programs running
on my system other than my security junk, there is something called 'Hardware
Interrupts' that is showing to use up to 80% of my CPU... I dont know why
this is happening, or how to remedy the situation, that is why I am here,
asking for your help...any assistance would be greatly appreciated; also,
please bear in mind that I am not a 'techie' or computer wiz, just an old guy
who wants to keep my desktop pc running in the best condition possible...I
know this problem is something that is not supposed to be happening, but
don't know how to fix it...thanks in advance... ~~Bill