idle processing and slow start up

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Simon Taylor

Recently, I have found that Windows XP is taking a long time to start up and
that the hard drive light is ALWAYS on with 'system idle processing' taking
up a huge amount of CPU even when I am running and working with programs.

Scandisk has revealed some bad sectors. Can this have anything to do with
it?

I have tried GO Back and system restore..but no change.

Thanks for reading.

Simon
 
Hi

System Idle Process shows how much the CPU isn't using. So the higher that
number the better. The reading here is 97/98 and everything is working
smoothly.
 
Will Denny said:
Hi

System Idle Process shows how much the CPU isn't using. So the higher
that number the better. The reading here is 97/98 and everything is
working smoothly.
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Thanks for that.

Any ideas for the hard drive activity light being permanently on?
 
Simon Taylor said:
Thanks for that.

Any ideas for the hard drive activity light being permanently on?
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Hi

Permanently - literally? Have you got the Indexing Service enabled?
 
My computer does the same with my system idle process taking up 90-98% of my
processor, and my computer goes to a slow almost frozen state with explorer
to start up and shut down. My start up and shut down has no problems logging
in and on or off. As for shutting the system down and/or Powering on power
 
Forrest said:
My computer does the same with my system idle process taking up
90-98% of my processor, and my computer goes to a slow almost frozen
state with explorer to start up and shut down. My start up and shut
down has no problems logging in and on or off. As for shutting the
system down and/or Powering on power
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Forrest

If the System Idle Process is reading 90 to 98%, this is good! The System
Idle Process is the amount of CPU power that is 'not' being used.

For the Explorer problem, you might want to take a look at the Event Viewer
for possible info on what is happening. Go to Start/Run and type
enentvwr.msc and click OK. Click the 3 menu items on the left and look for
any "X" error messages that coincide with the time you last saw this
behavior. Double click the error event to view the details. You can clip the
Copy Icon in the details window to copy the error details and Paste the
results back here in a reply.
 
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