Very High CPU usage

[Joel Barsotti]

When I installed vista I'm getting crazy CPU usage of around 40% on a dual
core 2.6ghz A64 w/ 2GB of ram

This seems really off, for sitting at the desktop doing nothing.

It's the explorer process that's using the CPU power.

Any idea's on the issue?

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

And the Windows Indexing Service.
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[Joel Barsotti]

Where's the check box to turn that off?

And the Windows Indexing Service.
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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Open Control Panel (set to Classic View) > Indexing Options > Advanced (I
can't remember off the top of my head right now, but you should see an
option there to uncheck it.

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Disable the Windows Search - this usually munches up a whole load of CPU )

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[Zack Whittaker]

Start, Run, type in services.msc and double click on the Windows Search
service, then set to Disable, then Stop.

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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

My bad, its actually, Modify > Change selected locations > uncheck the
folders Indexing is checked for OK.

 

[Joel Barsotti]

I've disable search and it looks like all my indexing is turned off and
explorer is taking up like 90% cpu usage.

Any idea why the explorer process could take up so much cpu?

 

[cf]

I've disable search and it looks like all my indexing is turned off and

explorer is taking up like 90% cpu usage.

Any idea why the explorer process could take up so much cpu?

Try running ProcessExplorer from sysinternals.com (run it with admin
proviledges), maybe you'll get more info

Christophe