Yancy Box;961223 Wrote:
I disagree with the answers posted here. If I am on my computer I am not
idle. I don't turn the computer on to stare at the screen. I am always
doing something, whether it be surfing the Internet, sending/receiving
emails, browsing myspace/facebook....my computer is NEVER idle. I have
done the same thing on this computer since I got it and I've NEVER had
Systerm Idle Process until the last two or three weeks. I do a disk
clean up and start a defrag EVERY night when I go to bed. The next
morning the defrag is done, I restart the comptuer and BAM!!! System
Idle Process. I do not do "scan disk" daily; however, I do it regularly.
I run my spyware removal, virus scan....all the necessary things to keep
a computer running smoothly...nothing seems to work. The only thing I
have changed on my computer in the last few weeks was to download McAfee
Security Center. I have uninstalled in this morning (just prior to
typing this). I hope it changes things once I reboot the computer.

I will say this, I know for a fact, doing disk scan, disk clean up,
defrag, virus scan, spyware scan...none of this makes a difference at
all.


Still, Ken Blake is right. The SIP is nothing but the complement of the
CPU time used. When your PC is shut off, the SIP is 100%. The "tasks"
you mentioned do not use a lot of CPU. Those are more bottlenecked by
the HDD and the internet speed.


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whs

Yancy Box;961223 Wrote:
I disagree with the answers posted here. If I am on my computer I am not
idle. I don't turn the computer on to stare at the screen. I am always
doing something, whether it be surfing the Internet, sending/receiving
emails, browsing myspace/facebook....my computer is NEVER idle. I have
done the same thing on this computer since I got it and I've NEVER had
Systerm Idle Process until the last two or three weeks. I do a disk
clean up and start a defrag EVERY night when I go to bed. The next
morning the defrag is done, I restart the comptuer and BAM!!! System
Idle Process. I do not do "scan disk" daily; however, I do it regularly.
I run my spyware removal, virus scan....all the necessary things to keep
a computer running smoothly...nothing seems to work. The only thing I
have changed on my computer in the last few weeks was to download McAfee
Security Center. I have uninstalled in this morning (just prior to
typing this). I hope it changes things once I reboot the computer.

I will say this, I know for a fact, doing disk scan, disk clean up,
defrag, virus scan, spyware scan...none of this makes a difference at
all.


Still, Ken Blake is right. The SIP is nothing but the complement of the
CPU time used. When your PC is shut off, the SIP is 100%. The "tasks"
you mentioned do not use a lot of CPU. Those are more bottlenecked by
the HDD and the internet speed.


--
whs