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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Performance and Maintainance / October 2007XP Peformance
Task mgr is reporting 50% CPU utilization while computer is idle!! . Is this normal? Never looked until lately. My computer is a P4 3.2 mhz with 2 gig ram and two 10,000 rpm SATA hard drives. Opening up any file wil take CPU utilization easily up to 80 to 100%. Computer is noticebly slower... not sure if from BIOS upgrade (ASUS) or me messing with Performance settings. Right now, I have everything set to Windows optimize my memory. Your input on what to check is appreciated -Art Checked for viruses and spyware lately?  SignaturePeter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 P4 dual HT @ 3ghz, 360gb HD, 1gb DDR. > Task mgr is reporting 50% CPU utilization while computer is idle!! . Is > this [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Your input on what to check is appreciated > -Art Running Norton Anti-virus--- nothing on spyware. Not sure if its related, but I found three Wan Miniport (IP, L2TP and PPOE) protocols attached to my 3com Network adapter. I disabled them but unable to uninstalled? Do you think this is related?? Signature-Art > Checked for viruses and spyware lately? > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Your input on what to check is appreciated > > -Art Not sure of that, but what's running in Task Manager/Processes Tab..(Ctrl-Alt-Delete)? SignaturePeter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 P4 dual HT @ 3ghz, 360gb HD, 1gb DDR. > Running Norton Anti-virus--- nothing on spyware. Not sure if its > related, [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> > Your input on what to check is appreciated >> > -Art What about other maintenance jobs, is your system clean of spyware/adware/viruses? Have you done a cleanup lately? Analyze the frag levels and see if it needs to be defragged. File access can crawl to a slow if ur drive is badly fragmented. Art Wrote: > Task mgr is reporting 50% CPU utilization while computer is idle!! . Is > this [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Your input on what to check is appreciated > -Art Signaturedoodle Looks like my print spooler is misbehaving ... hogging 48% of system rescoures. I closed it and recaptured resources.... unfortunately it raised its ugly head again. Trying to track down cause. Signature-Art > What about other maintenance jobs, is your system clean of > spyware/adware/viruses? Have you done a cleanup lately? Analyze the [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Your input on what to check is appreciated > > -Art Reinstall? repair install? SignaturePeter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 P4 dual HT @ 3ghz, 360gb HD, 1gb DDR. > Looks like my print spooler is misbehaving ... hogging 48% of system > rescoures. I closed it and recaptured resources.... unfortunately it [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >> > Your input on what to check is appreciated >> > -Art Hi Art, I have seen this before. The first thing I do is run the task mgr an see what process is using up cpu. From there you may be able t identify and kill the offending pgm. Jon Art Wrote: > Task mgr is reporting 50% CPU utilization while computer is idle!! . I > this [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Your input on what to check is appreciated > -Ar -- bytemunger-jon May be something is hanging? I have a program that send CPU to 100% occasionally at start OR in the middle of a process within the program OR after closing the program. The only way I ID'd the exe was as the application disappeared from Application window in WTM its associated .exe was still present under Processes listing A smart prod on closing the process helped > Task mgr is reporting 50% CPU utilization while computer is idle!! . Is this > normal? Never looked until lately. My computer is a P4 3.2 mhz with 2 gig [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Your input on what to check is appreciated > -Art The Task Manager shows the print spooler misbehaving..... using 48% to 51% of system resources. This is re-occurring ..... but cannot find cause of print spooler miscue. I have deleted and re-installed local and netorked printers. Anyother suggestions are welcomed. Signature-Art > May be something is hanging? > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Your input on what to check is appreciated > > -Art Have you checked for viruses? This can be caused by certain malware namely Backdoor types. here is a tip I gleaned from the internet, whther or not it'll help I don't know: spoolsv.exe hogging 99% of cpu - the fix I came into lab to find the printer printing strange ASCII characters, one line per page, and a basically inoperably slow PC. Checking Task Manager, I found the culprit - one spoolsv.exe at 99% cpu which I killed. About 30 seconds later, the cpu was once again clogged by a revived app. Here's the fix. First, get some breathing room - go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services and stop the Print Spooler. Turn off the printer. Now go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS and delete the files there. I found '00020.SHD' and '00020.SPL'. Now turn your printer back on and restart the service. Check task manager, spoolsv.exe should be at 00% SignaturePeter Toronto, Canada XP Home SP2 P4 dual HT @ 3ghz, 360gb HD, 1gb DDR. > The Task Manager shows the print spooler misbehaving..... using 48% to > 51% [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> > Your input on what to check is appreciated >> > -Art Try to optimize your pc by http://www.clickaudit.com/goto/?71493 removes unnecessary program. > Task mgr is reporting 50% CPU utilization while computer is idle!! . Is this > normal? Never looked until lately. My computer is a P4 3.2 mhz with 2 gig [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Your input on what to check is appreciated > -Art |
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