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High CPU when doing nothing
Hello,
I have had my lap top (make, model and specs in my system details) for about three years, and have noticed that it often uses a lot of CPU even when I'm not running anything. For example, I can just start up the lap top, open Task Manager, and see that there is a lot of CPU activity. As a result, the machine runs very slowly.
I tried running msconfig and disabling all non-MS services, but it didn't really help (maybe a weeny bit, but not enough to say the problem went away).
I just restarted again, and whilst the CPU wasn't as high as I've seen, it was still quite high considering I wasn't running anything at all. I used the Windows Assessment Toolkit to grab a trace which is here.
Anyone able to give any ideas what's going on?
Thanks