philth Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 Ok my computer is being rather slow recently... When checking Ctrl-Alt-Delete it came up showing that the system idle is using a shit load of CPU usage. Also when i do a virus scan it comes up with with something like 1429 process scaned...hmmm HElP anyon...+ please don't say Re-boooooot Cheers Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janson Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 system idle process is the percentage of processor power that is not being used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexnessie Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 Janson's correct, system idle is the amount of processing power not being used. If you use a tabbed browser such as firefox, restart it every few hours, as some versions of firefox have a memory leak and everything goes slow-mo. I can't think of much else justnow, but if I think of anything, I'll add it onto this post in an edit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 47 processes? I've only got 33 even with firewall, msn, firefox and other such programs. I think you should maybe run a virus check and spyware sweep. :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 i got 48 processes.. even after virus and adware checks.. meh ill prolly disable some startup programs in system mechanic see how it goes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipsy Jock Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 53, Is that not good? Have just run spybot search and destroy as well. Ad aware net methinks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexnessie Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 I've currently got 65 processes, including : Msn GoogleTalk Yahoo Aim Firefox Steam XFire Winamp Pro random Diagnostic tools Ares and so on... (And I'm still only using 2% processing power, muwhahahaha) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biketrialler Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 I've currently got 65 processes, including : Msn GoogleTalk Yahoo Aim Firefox Steam XFire Winamp Pro random Diagnostic tools Ares and so on... (And I'm still only using 2% processing power, muwhahahaha) ← Congratulations, have a spoon on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexnessie Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 I was just showing that the number of processes doesn't affect computer speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Garland Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 Alot of proceses arnt CPU intensive so it wont use alot, I've got 41 process and 99 System Idle, woppde doo. My PC isnt even that awsome, it depends what the services are etc that are running. Im usually running firefox, msn and winamp which use probaboyl about 100mb memory max and are hardly CPU intensive programs. Running a game will cause alot more CPU usage. So moral of the story, not all processes are CPU intensive so you wont get alot of CPU power. Also did you know that your superdooper AMD 4000+ or whatever your running isnt actually running at the speed it says of say 2.2ghz. AMD cpus (modern ones) run at 800mhz when just browsing net etc to save power, intels only drop to 2ghz or something so it might use more cpu power at a lower mhz and show up are more CPU intensive than it really is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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