Task Manager- 30% at idle?

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Lately my movies have been stutterling and audio has distortion as if something
is drawing system resources away from the tasks at hand. I update my Symantec
Corporate Edition Anti-Virus daily, I ran a pro version of Ad-Aware 6, Spider,
Defragged with Diskeeper, checked the hard drives for errors, moved the
multimedia to other hard drives (1 was SCSI), stopped unnecessary Services,
ended Task Manager tasks that weren't critical -- all to no avail. Ugh. I
really don't want to reformat but are there any other options? I haven't made
any changes that I know of in the system since this started. I also moved the
hard drive with the movies/audio in question to another computer where it plays
perfectly so its not the source.

 

[Jason Hall [MSFT]]

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From: <[email protected]>
Subject: Task Manager- 30% at idle?
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 12:50:21 -0500

Lately my movies have been stutterling and audio has distortion as if something
is drawing system resources away from the tasks at hand. I update my Symantec
Corporate Edition Anti-Virus daily, I ran a pro version of Ad-Aware 6, Spider,
Defragged with Diskeeper, checked the hard drives for errors, moved the
multimedia to other hard drives (1 was SCSI), stopped unnecessary Services,
ended Task Manager tasks that weren't critical -- all to no avail. Ugh. I
really don't want to reformat but are there any other options? I haven't made
any changes that I know of in the system since this started. I also moved the
hard drive with the movies/audio in question to another computer where it plays
perfectly so its not the source.

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OK, so is the problem that your CPU remains at around 30% utilization when
you are not active in any applications?
If so, then which process(es) is it that is using the CPU ?
A great initial troubleshooting step is to see if the issue occurs in safe
mode, that way we can know if our focus should be shifted towards
third-party software/drivers.


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