CPU Usage

[Happy]

Can anyone tell me what the "normal" or "peaks" of CPU usage are? Can it, or
should it be adjusted? I have noticed when my system is slow to respond,
that CPU is about 50-60%, and I don't seem to be doing anything too
challenging, (OE open, IE running, maybe one item down loading.) I have 3.2
gightz Intel P4, 512 RAM, 260G HD, WinXP Media Centre SP2

 

[Sharon F]

Can anyone tell me what the "normal" or "peaks" of CPU usage are? Can it, or
should it be adjusted? I have noticed when my system is slow to respond,
that CPU is about 50-60%, and I don't seem to be doing anything too
challenging, (OE open, IE running, maybe one item down loading.) I have 3.2
gightz Intel P4, 512 RAM, 260G HD, WinXP Media Centre SP2

Hard to say. There are many tasks that might run while the system is
"idle": builtin housekeeping (prefetch routines), indexing, antivirus
scans, backup programs, auto updates, etc.

Use the CPU column in Task Manager to track what process is using the CPU
cycles when the system is slow.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Do you have a Firewall installed? Do you regularly run anti-virus and
anti-spyware scans?

How much free space on your hard disk?

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[Happy]

I have the firewall in SP2. Virus scan is updated daily, is live, and is run
fully weekly. I have Microsoft Antispyware installed and running, and run
Adaware and Spybot regularly (every few days). My HD has 205 Gig free. I did
a disk defrag a few days ago.
Windows Task Manager was where I got the CPU usage info.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Task Manager is useful but you could look at another freeware utility
Process Explorer, which provides similar information but adds that
little bit extra towards seeing what the running processes represent.
For
further information about Process Explorer see here:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml


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[Happy]

Whew!!! This little puppy is quite complex! But, in a way, is quite
straightforward. I'll be playing with this for awhile, lots of info here.
What I'm wondering is, often when I find the CPU running at 55% +, everthing
seems to be almost"frozen", making it difficult to get this open, unless it
is already running, and it's a matter of bringing it to the top. And by the
time i get it open, it may be too late. Any suggestions?

 

[gls858]

Can anyone tell me what the "normal" or "peaks" of CPU usage are? Can it, or
should it be adjusted? I have noticed when my system is slow to respond,
that CPU is about 50-60%, and I don't seem to be doing anything too
challenging, (OE open, IE running, maybe one item down loading.) I have 3.2
gightz Intel P4, 512 RAM, 260G HD, WinXP Media Centre SP2

Why is there air?

 

[gls858]

Why is there air?

Sorry about that posted to the wrong thread.