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From: Gualtier Malde on 15 Jul 2010 13:28
I am using Windows XP SP3 in an Acer Netbook. Recently I noticed episodes of
near-total shutdown of Windows a fairly long delay, and then recovery with all
the operations I had keyed in being done (windows opening, closed programs
closing, etc). I went to Task Manager and found System Idle Process appearing
to use 93-98% of CPU, but the Performance tab showed fairly low CPU usage.

I don't know how to find the "guilty program". I am hopeful that there is some
app out there that will reveal it to me, but I am awful trying to find this
myself. I'll appreciate some pointers.

From: Tigger on 15 Jul 2010 13:54
Gualtier Malde writted thus:

> I am using Windows XP SP3 in an Acer Netbook. Recently I noticed
> episodes of near-total shutdown of Windows a fairly long delay, and then
> recovery with all the operations I had keyed in being done (windows
> opening, closed programs closing, etc). I went to Task Manager and
> found System Idle Process appearing to use 93-98% of CPU, but the
> Performance tab showed fairly low CPU usage.
>
> I don't know how to find the "guilty program". I am hopeful that there
> is some app out there that will reveal it to me, but I am awful trying
> to find this myself. I'll appreciate some pointers.

The clue is in the name...
From: Grinder on 15 Jul 2010 20:35
On 7/15/2010 12:28 PM, Gualtier Malde wrote:
> I am using Windows XP SP3 in an Acer Netbook. Recently I noticed
> episodes of near-total shutdown of Windows a fairly long delay, and then
> recovery with all the operations I had keyed in being done (windows
> opening, closed programs closing, etc). I went to Task Manager and found
> System Idle Process appearing to use 93-98% of CPU, but the Performance
> tab showed fairly low CPU usage.
>
> I don't know how to find the "guilty program". I am hopeful that there
> is some app out there that will reveal it to me, but I am awful trying
> to find this myself. I'll appreciate some pointers.
>
Duck Gualtier!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Idle_Process

From: Gualtier Malde on 16 Jul 2010 01:40
On 7/15/2010 17.35, Grinder wrote:
> On 7/15/2010 12:28 PM, Gualtier Malde wrote:
>> I am using Windows XP SP3 in an Acer Netbook. Recently I noticed
>> episodes of near-total shutdown of Windows a fairly long delay, and then
>> recovery with all the operations I had keyed in being done (windows
>> opening, closed programs closing, etc). I went to Task Manager and found
>> System Idle Process appearing to use 93-98% of CPU, but the Performance
>> tab showed fairly low CPU usage.
>>
>> I don't know how to find the "guilty program". I am hopeful that there
>> is some app out there that will reveal it to me, but I am awful trying
>> to find this myself. I'll appreciate some pointers.
>>
> Duck Gualtier!
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Idle_Process
>
That is interesting and I understood the paragraph how users get spooked about
the apparent CPU use. It's true that SIP was saying "95%" and Performance was
at 7%. OK - I'll have to look elsewhere for what is stopping everything short.
I kinda suspect some AVG thing, though I've shut off all the time-o-phages.

Thanks for the reply.
gm

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