The System Idle Process on a computer can't cause high CPU usage because the process is a measurement of how much of the CPU's resources are free at any given moment. Unlike every other process in the ...

For the past few days I've been noticing severe hits on my machine's usability.<BR><BR>Specs:<BR>Compaq Presario 732 (notebook)<BR>AMD Athlon 4 1400<BR>256 MB RAM<BR>XP Pro w/SP1 (and recent security ...

If I goto the task manager it says there is a process called "system idle process" and it is always at 95-100% cpu usage. However, if I look at the graph of cpu usage it shows that it is only at like ...

An option in the Windows XP Task Manager that indicates what percentage of time the CPU is currently doing nothing but waiting for work. If no applications are running that the user is aware of ...