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Wow, 95 processes running though. does WinPatrol give a clue as to what is using the CPU? And there's nothing in startup other than security?
Maybe that was a bad example picture, its normally about 70 processes. I was doing a little stuff at the time I took the picture. I am not really sure where you see CPU usage on WinPatrol. I only see first detected and so on.
I was thinking (dangerous) WinPatrol had a list of what is running more understandable than Windows does. &0 still seem a bit high though.
In search type resmon, hit enter, CPU tab and look at the individual CPU users. You can click the column labels to sort hi-lo, etc.
Right now the resource monitor itself is using 30%. Chrome is using 20%. Skype 12% at idle.
Is there a part of Windows that tells programs to use a certain amount of CPU? Perhaps this is messed up and is telling many programs to use CPU all at once.
I think each program will use the CPU as its code is written for. Since you have had this spike on two installs it would appear that it is something you installed each time, or the CPU may be bad. Do you know whether it has over heated?
I'm requesting some others to look in too.
Actually, let me clarify, open resmon. Maximize it, then drag your cpu portion so it fills the screen. Use your PC, until it starts to lag again, then go back to resmon, with it maximized, post a screen shot. It will record the minimums and maximums of running processes and show the offending processes.
It may be useful to add the "Base Priority" column to the processes tab of Task Manager. Almost everything should be running with normal priority, with only a few like your AV, Task Manager and such running with a higher priority.
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