Hi, Yancy.
And do you turn off your car's key when the traffic light turns red? Or do
you let the engine idle until the light turns green?
That's what the "system idle process" is doing much of the day. Computers
are so fast that, even for the fastest typist writing a letter in Word, for
example, MOST of the computer's time is spent waiting for the next
keystroke. Idling. And the faster the computer, the more time it has to
idle. Even when multi-tasking a dozen applications at once, the computer
usually has plenty of "free" time when it is just idling, waiting to see if
we are going to press the Start button or do something else to interrupt it.
> and I've NEVER had Systerm Idle Process until the last two or three
> weeks.
Then you must not have ever looked for it before. Because it HAS been
idling.
In Task Manager, on the Processes tab, make sure the CPU column is displayed
and sorted with the biggest number at the top. If you don't see "System
Idle Process" at the top, then look at the bottom of this window to the box
labeled, "Show processes from all users". Check this box and watch the
display change. Don't be surprised if you see System Idle Process at the
top with a BIG number in the CPU column. At this moment, I have a
half-dozen applications running in the background, plus I'm drafting this
post, and, of course, Task Manager itself is running. Still the System Idle
Process is getting 98-99% of CPU time. The CPU is just idling, waiting for
me to "step on the gas" - to give it something MORE to do. ;^}
It's A Good Thing!
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2009 in Win7 Ultimate x64 7000)
"Yancy Box" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> I disagree with the answers posted here. If I am on my computer I am
> not idle. I don't turn the computer on to stare at the screen. I am
> always doing something, whether it be surfing the Internet,
> sending/receiving emails, browsing myspace/facebook....my computer is
> NEVER idle. I have done the same thing on this computer since I got it
> and I've NEVER had Systerm Idle Process until the last two or three
> weeks. I do a disk clean up and start a defrag EVERY night when I go to
> bed. The next morning the defrag is done, I restart the comptuer and
> BAM!!! System Idle Process. I do not do "scan disk" daily; however, I
> do it regularly. I run my spyware removal, virus scan....all the
> necessary things to keep a computer running smoothly...nothing seems to
> work. The only thing I have changed on my computer in the last few
> weeks was to download McAfee Security Center. I have uninstalled in
> this morning (just prior to typing this). I hope it changes things once
> I reboot the computer.
>
> I will say this, I know for a fact, doing disk scan, disk clean up,
> defrag, virus scan, spyware scan...none of this makes a difference at
> all.
>
>
> --
> Yancy Box
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