CPU usage explaination needed

Posted: 08-01-2003, 08:05 PM

JFly

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I'm running windows xp pro on my system and I cannot
figure out why the cpu usage is maintaining a constant
status of 33%-36% no matter how many processes are
running in the background. I've tried closing mostly all
the background operations and I'm still getting the same
result. The only time that it does not is when I'm
running in safe mode. I've tried running the exact same
background processes as were running in safe mode, but
the usage was still at 33% or more, but it will not go
less than 30%-32%. Does anyone have an answer to this
problem?

CPU usage explaination needed

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Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)

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Re: CPU usage explaination needed

Posted: 08-01-2003, 08:56 PM

JFly wrote:

> I'm running windows xp pro on my system and I cannot
> figure out why the cpu usage is maintaining a constant
> status of 33%-36% no matter how many processes are
> running in the background. I've tried closing mostly all
> the background operations and I'm still getting the same
> result. The only time that it does not is when I'm
> running in safe mode. I've tried running the exact same
> background processes as were running in safe mode, but
> the usage was still at 33% or more, but it will not go
> less than 30%-32%. Does anyone have an answer to this
> problem?

Have you tried hitting ctrl-alt-delete and checking to see if anything in
the task list is shows this type of usage? The only thing that normally
runs high on a constant basis is "System Idle Process," usually over 90% and
that is normal.

Anything else consuming CPU time should show up in the list along with its
usage.

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CPU usage explaination needed

Posted: 08-02-2003, 03:32 AM

I saw exactly the same thing on my XP pro system.
The process that overactive was navapsvc.exe which is part
of Norton antivirus. I ended the process, it disabled NAV
on the taskbar which I then re-enabled. When it was re-
enabled it acted normally. No more problem.

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm running windows xp pro on my system and I cannot
>figure out why the cpu usage is maintaining a constant
>status of 33%-36% no matter how many processes are
>running in the background. I've tried closing mostly all
>the background operations and I'm still getting the same
>result. The only time that it does not is when I'm
>running in safe mode. I've tried running the exact same
>background processes as were running in safe mode, but
>the usage was still at 33% or more, but it will not go
>less than 30%-32%. Does anyone have an answer to this
>problem?
>.
>

JFly

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Re: CPU usage explaination needed

Posted: 08-14-2003, 02:59 PM

The only process that that I can see is using the cpu is
the system idle. I'm only running 15 processes right now
and I've found that a particular music creation program
that I open is the only one that drops the usage down to
normal.

>-----Original Message-----
>Which process is using the CPU?
>
>Andrej
>
>On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 13:05:36 -0700, "JFly"

<jfly415m@alltel.net> wrote:

>
>>I'm running windows xp pro on my system and I cannot
>>figure out why the cpu usage is maintaining a constant
>>status of 33%-36% no matter how many processes are
>>running in the background. I've tried closing mostly

all

>>the background operations and I'm still getting the

same

>>result. The only time that it does not is when I'm
>>running in safe mode. I've tried running the exact

same

>>background processes as were running in safe mode, but
>>the usage was still at 33% or more, but it will not go
>>less than 30%-32%. Does anyone have an answer to this
>>problem?
>
>.
>

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