High Cpu Usage That Occurs.?

Sunday, November 15th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

Any help from the forum experts are greatly appreciated.
I looked at the Task Manager and the Program eating up most of my CPU Usage, my CPU usage jumps and spikes to 100% will stay there till I finish Scanning (Registry Scan, Virus Scan, Spyware Scan…..) System Idle Process then drops to 00 during scan.
When Scan is done, everything goes back to normal. System Idle Process is back to 99.
Just stays at 98% – 100% during scans. Doing anything else like playing games, surfing or Burning Cd is all normal.
My CPU usage normal during these scans?
My computer:
XP Pro (Installed 2 weeks ago, with all updates)
Persona cable modem and internet service
AMD Duron(tm)Processor
1.02 Ghz
512mb of Ram
80 Gig Hard drive
System Tray has open:
Zone Alarm, Avg, Volume, Winzip Quick Pro, 3d Audio Config and Windows Messenger – Not Signed In.
Thank you for your help and information.
Av2ene

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5 Responses to “High Cpu Usage That Occurs.?”

  1. Angry C Says:
    November 15th, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    Sounds normal. If you think of a “process” as an activity, close to 100% will be asigned to your scans if that’s all you’re doing. When you stop the scans, close to 100% of the CPU usage will be assigned to the System Idle Process (activity). Kinda oxymoronic, but in this case being “idle” is also an activity. If you have more than 1 process running at the same time, the CPU will determine which process needs (and gets) the most CPU usage.

  2. Anonymous Says:
    November 15th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    The less you have open the better try using msconfig to close what is not needed however some programs are more draining especially the MS utilities and things like zone alarm try also to get a linksys router as the harware firewall will free some usage up and get as many icons off the desktop. Hope this helps

  3. ugns2 Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 1:21 am

    wat procosses are are running and system idle proccess should always run at max like that.

  4. Anonymous Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 4:17 am

    click on start>run, type msconfig, go to SERVICES tab, check hide all microsoft services, then uncheck all the items.
    now on START UP tab, uncheck all the unnecessary files…

  5. trrt r Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 11:08 am

    its normal, because during scan, the program loads files from ur hard drive to RAM, so the memory get used. that is 99% normal.