See, I have found something, it is interesting to me. But don’t know why it happens.
Right Click on task bar and open Task Manager.
Then on Task Manager click on Performance tab, which shows your processor usage.
Close any other window or minimize them.
Now you should see only Task Manager (Performance tab) and Desktop.
Now, keep pressing any key on your keyboard longer. For example.
Press enter keep it for 3 seconds.. What happened? Nothing..
The processor still shows 2% usage.
If you press any key and keep it longer, the processor still shows a small percentage of usage.
But now try this:
Press (Print Scrn) and keep it for 3 second?
What happens?
Do u hear any sound from your computer?? Yes..
Look at the percentage.. it goes to 100%....
Why is it?
2007-02-28 14:38:17 · 7 answers · asked by Great Man 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Doesn't happen here either...
2007-02-28 14:46:10 · answer #1 · answered by Proud to be 59 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A computer with small specification can do that.
When you are pressing Print Screen, you are actually take photo shots of the whole entire screen that you looking at right now.
TO prove it....
Press Print Screen and go to Paint which is in Accessories in Start Menu.
Go to Edit and Select Paste.
Viola!
You just did a entire art of what was photograph.
2007-02-28 22:44:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because pressing the other keys just adds a letter to your keyboard input buffer. But pressing "Print Screen" adds 480 X 600 pixels of data to your copy buffer. By holding it down, you not only do it once, you do it hundreds of times. That's a lot of data!
2007-02-28 22:43:54 · answer #3 · answered by GoodGuy53 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you press the Print screen/system request, and see 100%, you are seeing maxing out your memory by doing so. It shows all the available memory. Not a good thing to do - you can mess up you computer real good!
2007-02-28 22:47:47 · answer #4 · answered by darib3345 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When you press the print screen it takes a screen shot of your pc. If you hold the key the computer will start taking about 5 screenshots every second. that takes cpu power.
2007-02-28 22:46:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because PrintScreen is copying the screen to the clipboard, so it takes a lot of processing power. The other keys just get ignored as repeats.
2007-02-28 22:46:59 · answer #6 · answered by T J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey man i did what u said happened to your computer and it doesnt happen to mine it goes to about 7% what type of computer do you have it might be cuz you have a slow or cheap prossesor
2007-02-28 22:44:56 · answer #7 · answered by Zeros T 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋