The System Idle Process on a computer can't cause high CPU usage because the process is a measurement of how much of the CPU's resources are free at any given moment. Unlike every other process in the ...

So what's likely the cause of such behavior? A bad driver? Any way to find out which? Clearly, based on how sluggish my system is the CPU is at 65% even though the process window shows only the idle ...

For the past few days I've been noticing severe hits on my machine's usability.<BR><BR>Specs:<BR>Compaq Presario 732 (notebook)<BR>AMD Athlon 4 1400<BR>256 MB RAM<BR>XP Pro w/SP1 (and recent security ...

WICKLIFFE, KY (KFVS) - The idle process is under way at the Verso Corporation's paper mill in Wickliffe, Ky. According to Mayor George Lane, the layoff process has started. Lane says over the course ...

An option in the Windows XP Task Manager that indicates what percentage of time the CPU is currently doing nothing but waiting for work. If no applications are running that the user is aware of ...