If it's defrag change the schedule to run during the AM.
Of course you'd have to leave it on.



"Emil Lulic" <emill@eunet.yu> wrote in message
news:08CB3EC7-1CF7-42DB-B182-802A4C1C086B@microsoft.com...
> Yes... In Vista, Defragment and other maintenance is done while your PC
> and CPU is idle... That's perfectly ok! It actually gives up the
> processing power when you run any program...
>
> Emil Lulic
>
> "Paul Lady" <pjl@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:538E4D38-488C-4A04-93F2-7C1A470D37EE@microsoft.com...
>> Is it normal for Vista to use about half of the CPU when no apps are
>> running?
>>
>> I have a 6 month old Dell that has started to show about half the cpu
>> consumed my the stuff that I have no control over that I can find. Task
>> manager doubles the list of processes when I check "show all users" at
>> the bottom with some user called SYSTEM that I can't control. SYSTEM is
>> the culprit, and I can't turn anything off.
>>
>> Anybody understand what to do? I have checked the web and all I find is
>> registry cleaners that want money to deliver an unspecified solution.
>>
>> TIA, pjl
>