Recently, I unplugged our computer because I thought I was taking it somewhere. I ended out not taking it and plugged it back in. Now, "System" is taking up a ton of CPU.
It's not 100% all the time, the weird thing is that it compensates for whatever else is running. For example, if aim.exe runs for a second with 4%, system will go down to 96%. It did this all the way up (or down) to around 50%, sharing it with another program.
Anyway, the strangest part is that it is not slowing the computer down. It was, my brother says, but it is not for me right now, as I am posting from it. It does, however, stop the USB ports from working. (That could just be the ports, I'm not sure if it is related to this problem.)
Please help, we have PC-cillin and Spy Sweeper. I'm pretty sure neither have detected a problem. If all you can help with is the USB ports, that would be great, at least then I could back everything up.
~Pie
2007-01-29 13:00:54 · 2 answers · asked by hewhoeatspie 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
No, it's not "System Idle Process". I actually searched this site for quite a while seeing if someone had the same problem, and many people had no idea what "idle" was and why it was taking up CPUs. I, on the other hand, know what it is.
The point is that it is "System" is what it's called.
2007-01-29 15:22:21 · update #1
System Idle Process means... that's the idling process power available. It doesn't mean it's using it. So if it's high up in the 90 percentile, it means that you have 90% or so processing power for other applications atm.
2007-01-29 13:05:16 · answer #1 · answered by wootness 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
is it SYSTEM IDLE PROCES?
IDLE being the key word. it's just there for statistics, it's not an ACTUAL process
2007-01-29 13:12:30 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋