CPU usage 95% when 'puter is idle, off network, and indexing turned of

[zzita]

after turning HP wireless assist off:

 

[zzita]

i turned off the WMP network thingy, too, and my resting cpu usage is now at 12-25%. i'll give it another day before i decide it's for-sure fixed, but i think that was my problem.

thank you so much, guys, and i learned stuff for next time .

 

[MilesAhead]

Hope it "stays fixed" for you. I think I've had 4 HP machines that came with wireless capability. Never tried it. Just seemed like a pita. But my "network" is only 2 PCs on the same desk with kvma switch, network switch, router and modem. More like 2 towers hooked to one set of everything else.

 

[zzita]

well my wifi is working fine for both internet and home network. i dunno what that thing does, but it seems nonessential. back in the beginning, it kept trying to turn my bluetooth on, but i think i'd successfully turned off that aspect. i hate bossy software.

 

[unifex]

wow, unifex, that made a dramatic difference!

I'm glad you're making progress.

If I were you, I would also disable that "wisptis.exe", that may also consume resources, although most likely it's not related to your CPU usage problem. This is a "pen input" stuff for Tablet PC. As far as I understand you don't have a tablet, right? In this case, I would go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features on or off and remove the Tablet PC features (just un-check the box next to Tablet PC Components). To be honest, I am not sure why these are always turned on by default in desktop and laptop PCs that have nothing to do with tablets.

 

[alan10]

Try AutoRuns from SysInternals.

Right Click became very erratic about whether I could get the context menu..
I was advised to try AutoRuns and I discovered that the File sharing thing called Dropbox had infested Explorer with 10 hooks at start-up.

I then found Dropbox was frantically creating log files in one of its folders during boot up, i.e. time-stamps that exactly matched the first system event of the day, not much different from a Rootkit ! !

When I installed Dropbox I unchecked the auto-start box and that prevented the icon from appearing in the notification tray. I thought they had obeyed me.

AutoRuns was able to stop all the Dropbox nonsense, but I decided not to suffer the same aggravation if Dropbox did an update so I uninstalled.

You may not have Dropbox, but you could have something else quite nasty, and AutoRuns will probably show you and allow you to control it.

Alan

 

[MilesAhead]

I remember when I got Vista before SP1 this page was very helpful giving a hint of what all these new Vista services did:

SpeedyVista.com - Windows Vista Services - Summary/Details Page

It's not as bad since SP1 Vista and W7 but you may still spot something useful on the page.

 

[sreedhav]

wow, unifex, that made a dramatic difference!

I'm glad you're making progress.

If I were you, I would also disable that "wisptis.exe", that may also consume resources, although most likely it's not related to your CPU usage problem. This is a "pen input" stuff for Tablet PC. As far as I understand you don't have a tablet, right? In this case, I would go to Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features on or off and remove the Tablet PC features (just un-check the box next to Tablet PC Components). To be honest, I am not sure why these are always turned on by default in desktop and laptop PCs that have nothing to do with tablets.

Dear unifex,
You deserve a +1 for sure!

Regards,
Sreedhav