• System Idle Process using High CPU
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My PC's is currently running slower than a dead dog due to System Idle using the remainding cpu power. I've scoured many forum posts and the discovered that the file using all the cpu is "ntoskrnl.exe", I realise this a essential system file. I followed a forum posts advice and in cmd prompt entered SF /SCANNOW when finished it said that, it said that all files were repaired upon system reboot. And upon reboot, everything seemed dandy at first but the problem persists. Please advise me facepunchers
It is supposed to be high, the number next to System Idle Process isn't how much the CPU is being used, but rather the percentage of time the processor is idle. The higher it is, the less of the CPU being used. If you run something intensive or just open a program the number should drop for a moment.
How much programs are opened?
[QUOTE=Adamhully;40317719]It is supposed to be high, the number next to System Idle Process isn't how much the CPU is being used, but rather the percentage of time the processor is idle. The higher it is, the less of the CPU being used. If you run something intensive or just open a program the number should drop for a moment.[/QUOTE] But it still runs painfully slow, so might it be something else? [editline]17th April 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=classyjakey;40318182]How much programs are opened?[/QUOTE] It's straight from startup, so none
Has your system suddenly got slow or gradually?
I dealt with a client with a slow PC for a few months and after we tried many things the best result was re-installing the operating system (runs super fast now). This is easy for a tech guy like me (I do it about once a year or less to refresh my PC) but for your average person they can pay $200 for such a service. Computers just get bogged down. And it sucks. Good luck!
[QUOTE=Adamhully;40319242]Has your system suddenly got slow or gradually?[/QUOTE] It slowed down slightly but only recently it has got this bad. [editline]18th April 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Tambu;40322785]I dealt with a client with a slow PC for a few months and after we tried many things the best result was re-installing the operating system (runs super fast now). This is easy for a tech guy like me (I do it about once a year or less to refresh my PC) but for your average person they can pay $200 for such a service. Computers just get bogged down. And it sucks. Good luck![/QUOTE] I was planning to do that but don't have the OS installation disc, but I saw reports of people reinstalling their OS 7/8 times with a similar problem but they reported that it didn't solve the problem.
Have you ever ran a hard drive defragmentation? And how much HDD space do you have left? And also, open Performance Monitor (Via Task Manager under Performance tab), and show your Hard Faults per second graph. The more hard faults per second, the more the system uses the hard drive as RAM and slows everything down. I had this problem with a Acer Extensa 5235. There was just too less RAM (only 1 GB).
Haha I now realise how stupid this was after more research, oh dear. Still unsure of the problem though, gonna have to try and get hold of a copy of Windows
[QUOTE=Hamm0;40343374]Haha I now realise how stupid this was after more research, oh dear. Still unsure of the problem though, gonna have to try and get hold of a copy of Windows[/QUOTE] It indeed was high fragmentation issue? What I said was something I would do with a problem like this.
No its definitely not fragmentation, already tried it. Seems to work fine in safe mode
check registry for errors and clear it, they are common for slowing down computers after time as it builds up more and more This program will do it while checking other things its free for 14 days [url]http://www.tune-up.com/download/[/url] (make sure to backup registry first)
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