Windows 7 Processes and Files

Lordbob75 said:

cclloyd9785 said:

So what happens if I end the System Idle Proccess because it says its at like 98%, and my fan is going crazy which means it actually is loaded on my system?

98% means that your system is using 2% of the CPU power.

I don't think your fan has anything to do with the System Idle Process...
But you could try it I guess. I just recommend creating a restore point in case it damages anything...

~Lordbob

I recommend a complete system image if you are going to try it.

Ok, but just saying, when another proccess says it is using high CPU, but not high RAM, the fan goes on high, but when its not, its low.

Occasionally, my fan will be really high for no reason, and when i check task manager, it says systemIdleProccess is at 98-100% of my CPU.

Here you go; check these links:

System Idle Process: Information from Answers.com

Coding Horror: Why Is The System Idle Process Hogging All The Resources?

I will give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

So its just flusing out all the idle threads it used during my systems uptime?

WHS,

I have been researching this for the last hour. What I found is that most of the information available dates back to XP days. I found nothing Windows Seven specific at Microsoft - only a general statement about the process. I don't really see a need for a tutorial as there is nothing to tutor. Here are the results of my my research.

From Microsoft - System Idle Process - You cannot end this process from Task Manager. This process is a single thread running on each processor, which has the sole task of accounting for processor time when the system isn't processing other threads. In Task Manager, expect this process to account for the majority of processor time.

I conclude that the system idle process is more of a counter than a process.

The fact is that most computers can never really do nothing. When the computer is on, the CPU is running and it must do something - even if that "something" is waiting for something real to do.

Think of it as the computer just twiddling its virtual thumbs, waiting for something more important to do. The computer's doing something (virtual thumb twiddling), but we wouldn't call that doing anything useful - we call it being idle.

The "System Idle Process" is the software that runs when the computer has absolutely nothing better to do.