Vigilante
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Hey guys, does anybody know of a way/technique/tool etc.. that can help track down why CPU usage is high?
I run across this a lot but don't have a set way to do it. You have a system, that has been cleaned up, has an up to date Antivirus, updates done and so forth. No visible problems. Except that the CPU hovers at 10% to 30% while idle and then jumps to 80-100% when doing almost anything else.
How can I find out what process or driver or whatever, is using so much CPU? Or what might be a good troubleshooting system to find out and test?
I've uplugged the PCMCIA card and turned off like all the startups in MSCONFIG just for starters, but still uses a lot of CPU.
Lastly, note that the HDD is NOT grinding away. The hard drive has little IF ANY activity going on. So it is strickly CPU resources. And he has enough RAM for what IS running, so it's not a hardware resource issue as in, to little RAM.
Any ideas? Thanks.
I run across this a lot but don't have a set way to do it. You have a system, that has been cleaned up, has an up to date Antivirus, updates done and so forth. No visible problems. Except that the CPU hovers at 10% to 30% while idle and then jumps to 80-100% when doing almost anything else.
How can I find out what process or driver or whatever, is using so much CPU? Or what might be a good troubleshooting system to find out and test?
I've uplugged the PCMCIA card and turned off like all the startups in MSCONFIG just for starters, but still uses a lot of CPU.
Lastly, note that the HDD is NOT grinding away. The hard drive has little IF ANY activity going on. So it is strickly CPU resources. And he has enough RAM for what IS running, so it's not a hardware resource issue as in, to little RAM.
Any ideas? Thanks.