Running at 100% all the time?

[bmoney13]

I have a laptop with windows xp home edition. I have a 1.2ghz
processor, 256mb memory, and 20gig hdd. My cpu has been running at 100%
all the time for the last couple months. Can anyone tell me what is
wrong. The two processes that say they take up all the percentage
points are system and system idle process. Wtf? Do I need more memory,
is it because I have music? Even if I delete all the music and totally
redo everything I still run at 100%.

 

[bmoney13]

I have a laptop with windows xp home edition. I have a 1.2ghz
processor, 256mb memory, and 20gig hdd. My cpu has been running at 100%
all the time for the last couple months. Can anyone tell me what is
wrong. The two processes that say they take up all the percentage
points are system and system idle process. Wtf? Do I need more memory,
is it because I have music? Even if I delete all the music and totally
redo everything I still run at 100%.

Oh, and I still have and I am only using 55% of my hdd! I still have
like 8.5 gigs free!

 

[Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)]

Are you looking at the little gauge in the notification area?.. is it all a
light green colour?.. when you run your mouse pointer over it, does it state
that CPU usage is 100%?..

Do you have Seti running, or maybe a screensaver like 'Holding Pattern'?..
have you cleaned out your system by running your anti-spyware programs?

BUT, If you are looking at the 'processes' list, 'system idle' should be at
around 98-99%.. this is normal..

 

[Gerry Cornell]

You can disregard System Idle as that is the difference between 100% and
the sum of all running processes.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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