Re: CPU Usage

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From: Gerry Cornell (gcjc_at_tenretnitb.com)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:58:24 -0000

Task Manager is useful but you could look at another freeware utility
Process Explorer, which provides similar information but adds that
little bit extra towards seeing what the running processes represent.
For
further information about Process Explorer see here:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml 

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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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"Happy" <happy@trial.ca> wrote in message 
news:bQPLd.223587$Np3.9336948@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>I have the firewall in SP2. Virus scan is updated daily, is live, and 
>is run fully weekly. I have Microsoft Antispyware installed and 
>running, and run Adaware and Spybot regularly (every few days). My HD 
>has 205 Gig free. I did a disk defrag a few days ago.
> Windows Task Manager was where I got the CPU usage info.
> "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@tenretnitb.com> wrote in message 
> news:ef1okmICFHA.3504@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Do you have a Firewall installed? Do you regularly run anti-virus and 
>> anti-spyware scans?
>>
>> How much free space on your hard disk?
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>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Gerry
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>> "Happy" <happy@trial.ca> wrote in message 
>> news:RJNLd.223528$Np3.9334525@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>>> Can anyone tell me what the "normal" or "peaks" of CPU usage are? 
>>> Can it, or should it be adjusted? I have noticed when my system is 
>>> slow to respond, that CPU is about 50-60%, and I don't seem to be 
>>> doing anything too challenging, (OE open, IE running, maybe one item 
>>> down loading.)  I have 3.2 gightz Intel P4, 512 RAM, 260G HD, WinXP 
>>> Media Centre SP2
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