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Taskmgr.exe using lots of CPU %
Name: Alex2002 Date: November 29, 2006 at 13:29:55 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: PII 300, 224MB Product: IBM THINKPAD
Comment:
Further to my post about installing XP on this old laptop, well I did so, and it works very well considering the spec.
One thing I am confused about though is Taskmgr.exe - the actual process of taskmgr.exe inside of Task Manager. I'm looking at the screen on the laptop right now, with no apps running, and TASKMGR.exe is constantly using 24-26% of the CPU. Any idea why this would be? Surely the processor isn't that bad that a simple application like this would eat up that much % of CPU time!
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Name: Alex2002
