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High CPU usage
Name: elpaw Date: December 11, 2005 at 14:27:55 Pacific OS: XP Pro SP2 CPU/Ram: AthlonXP 3000+ / 640MB
Comment:
My PC is being slow and unresponsive. It takes a few minutes to boot up too, whereas a week ago it took only about a minute. My CPU usage is high a lot of the time - 90%+ - but the system idle process is high too, over 50% for a lot of the time. Isn't this just wron; should system idle be high only if there is low cpu usage? Could a process be hiding itself from the Win Task Manager? Maybe I have a rootkit....?
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