High CPU usage when doing nothing

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  1. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
       #1

    High CPU usage when doing nothing


    Task Manager shows CPU usage constantly above 50% while doing nothing.
    Looking at processes, all I see is chrome.exe using 60,000 - 140,000K memory (it continually varies) and between 02 - 12 CPU usage.

    Currently, while I write this post Task Manager shows this information:
    CPU Usage: 55 - 85%
    Physical Memory: 42%

    Physical Memory (MB)
    Total 4061
    Cached 1721
    Available 2337
    Free 677

    I ran a Kaspersky scan and also a Malwarebytes one and nothing showed up.

    I followed few recommendations from the web, but nothing worked.

    Please help,
    Dual Trace
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  2. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2

    You have a 1.3 GHz cpu, surprised it even runs Windows 7
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  3. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    It runs fine, reformatted once three years ago and installed an SSD drive one year ago. It starts in less than 20 sec.
    I don't do anything fancy and can't quite complain about anything, but I just noticed the high usage.
    At work I also have Windows 7 running on a 2GB machine and idle usage stays under 5%.

    Here is the summary:
    Laptop: Asus UL50VT
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    CPU: Intel U7300 @1.3GHz
    RAM: 4GB
    Graphics Card(s): Nvidia GeForceG210M
    Hard Drive: CT250BX100SSD1 (that is 250GB)
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  4. Posts : 2,468
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #4

    Look at task manager which process is eating most CPU. high usage could be due to anything, but knowing which background program is doing it will help significantly. Tick the "show processes from all users" option and sort by CPU % to highlight the offenders.

    A blind bet: Windows update set to automatically download usually makes svchost.exe go crazy
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  5. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #5

    Make a snip of task manger with all windows closed and post.

    Example.
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  6. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    My Windows updates are disabled.
    Here are the screen shots. The yellow arrow marks the moment when I shut down google chrome.
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  7. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #7

    Hi,
    svchost.exe is eating your resources leaving little for Chrome to eat so it feeds off the rest leaving you with none = slow system.
    Windows Update will not update and I've tried multiple fixes
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  8. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #8

    Not sure how you could miss that, mine are all at 00
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  9. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #9

    OK, here are all the svchost I can see. I'm 61, it took me a while to figure out how to find them all.
    The one currently showing CPU 18 and 1,741,840k memory most of the time stays at CPU 50, but the screen shot got it at 18.
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  10. Posts : 12
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #10

    I ended that particular svchost process by clicking on the End Process button and restarted the computer. For maybe 2 minutes or so things were pretty quiet, but then that process slowly increased its memory usage to over 1,300,000 and CPU also up to around 50.
    How can I disable that svchost and make it stay disabled?
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