system idle process bogging down

[mssuszt]

Help- how can I safely stop the system idle process,
that is if it is the problem with cpu usage on task
manager. After closing programs like kazaa and ares, the
response time on pc work is extremely slow. What do I
need to do?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

System Idle Process is exactly what it sounds like.
It is the % of processing power you have waiting for something to do,
doing nothing.

If you are having problems, this is not the cause.
Follow this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm
Kazaa and the associated spyware is most likely the problem.
Uninstall Kazaa.
Some of the spyware tools in the above link may remove the spyware
components of Kazaa leaving Kazaa useless.

 

[Rock]

Help- how can I safely stop the system idle process,
that is if it is the problem with cpu usage on task
manager. After closing programs like kazaa and ares, the
response time on pc work is extremely slow. What do I
need to do?

Get rid of Kazaa and ares, then scan your system for all the nasties
they facilited getting on your system.

 

[Ken Blake]

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Help- how can I safely stop the system idle process,
that is if it is the problem with cpu usage on task
manager.

System Idle Process is the name for what the computer is doing
when it isn't doing anything at all. Essentially it's just there
to make the total add up to 100. It's not any problem at all.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Break out a dictionary and look up the word "idle," sometime. ;-}
The "System Idle Process" metric is the amount/percentage of time that
your CPU has *nothing* to do. A reading of 98-99% is generally
considered a good thing, and readings above 90% are normal. Think of
it like a car's engine idling in your driveway before you place the
car in gear.

If no other process is consuming large amounts of CPU time, look
elsewhere for the problem. How much RAM do you have? How fast is the
CPU? Are the motherboard jumpers or BIOS settings correct for both?
How large is your swap file? Is it fragmented? How much free space
is there on the system partition? If the system partition badly
fragmented?

As you mention Kazaa, have you made sure that you've eliminated
all of the viruses and spyware that are part and parcel of the P2P
"world?"


Bruce Chambers
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[Plato]

Help- how can I safely stop the system idle process,
that is if it is the problem with cpu usage on task
manager. After closing programs like kazaa and ares, the
response time on pc work is extremely slow. What do I
need to do?

Remove kazaa

 

[Alex Nichol]

Help- how can I safely stop the system idle process,
that is if it is the problem with cpu usage on task
manager.

That is the little loop the system runs round, 'twiddling its thumbs'
when there is absolutely nothing else to do and it is waiting for a task
to turn up. It is usually up around 97% if you have only task manager
running

Whatever is causing your other problems it is not overload of the cpu