Re: Process explorer help please: SOLVED

Gerard Verhoef wrote:
Windows Task Managers shows that the system process takes up 80+ % of the CPU-time. I read on several internet sites that a program called "process explorer" is able to analyze the processes and threads the cpu is working on. So I ran this utility.
I have a seemingly stupid question:
The process tree starts with the system Idle process as a root. One of the branches atarts with the system process. In the CPU column it says that system is talking up say 70.32 CPU (I interpret that as 70.32%).
The system branch splits up in sub branches. Some of the processes mentioned there also have a number in the CPU column. I would expect that those numbers would add up to the system CPU number, but is doesn't. Not even close.
How do I interpret the numbers in the CPU column? How can I see which process of the system process is taking all the cpu time?

Thanks for any help

Gerard Verhoef

Just to let you know:

I solved the CPU-hog problem, AND I kinda understand better than before how the process explorer works.
For the latter, see my last posts in this thread.

After all I didn't use process explorer to solve the problem, but simply turned off apps and services I had running. I didn't try that in the first place because turning off the system process isn't really an option of course. And the system process was the villain (at least according to both process explorer and task manager). Wrong!

System explorer might have been hogging CPU time, but turning off the COMODO firewall brought the system process back into control as well. So I guess that it's the combination of several things and turning off comodo was sufficient to get it right. Keep my fingers crossed of course, you never know.

Thanks for responding to my post

Gerard.

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