System Idle Process

[Guest]

When I open Windows task manager I can see that CPU valu of the System Idle
Process is going up and down from 33 to 95 and over. I also noticed that. I
wanted to kill the process but can not do it. That is slowing down the
computer a lot.

Is there anything I can do?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

The System Idle Process shows when the PC isn't doing anything. The higher
that % the better. When it is at 33% there must be other
processes/applications running. When it is at 95% hardly anything is
running.

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[Ron Martell]

When I open Windows task manager I can see that CPU valu of the System Idle
Process is going up and down from 33 to 95 and over. I also noticed that. I
wanted to kill the process but can not do it. That is slowing down the
computer a lot.

Is there anything I can do?

System Idle Process means exactly what it says - the system is idle.
It has nothing to do and that is what it is doing - nothing.

If System Idle is at 33 percent fairly often then your system is
relatively busy. Most computers show a system idle percent in the 90s
almost constantly unless they are infested with a
virus/trojan/malware.

To see what is using the CPU open Task Manager, go to the Processes
tab, and click twice on the CPU column header. That will put the
highest values at the top of the list and you can easily see what is
using the most CPU time.

And you can safely ignore the System Idle Process value.

Good luck
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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[Ken Blake, MVP]

When I open Windows task manager I can see that CPU valu of the
System Idle Process is going up and down from 33 to 95 and over. I
also noticed that. I wanted to kill the process but can not do it.
That is slowing down the computer a lot.

Is there anything I can do?

*Something* may be slowing down the computer, but I can assure you that it's
not the System Idle Process.

"System Idle Process" is not any problem at all. That's just the name for
what the system is doing when it's not doing anything. It's there to make
the total add up to 100%.

There's nothing to do about System Idle Process. Look elsewhere for your
problem.