Idle processing

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Why on earth Idle processing take 97 % of my CPU power
every 5 seconds. I Ctrl Alt Del to see why my Comp. when
play DVD keep slow down every 5 ~10 second and see this
Idle processing shot up. Can some one explan??
Tnahks,
//Sl

HP W335A P4 2.5 1g mem.

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System Idle Process is exactly what it sounds like.
It is the % of processing power you have waiting for something to do,
doing nothing.

If you are having problems, this is not the cause.
Follow this link:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/


"sang" <sangmluc@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:2e7e01c4aa43$8ba602e0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Why on earth Idle processing take 97 % of my CPU power
> every 5 seconds. I Ctrl Alt Del to see why my Comp. when
> play DVD keep slow down every 5 ~10 second and see this
> Idle processing shot up. Can some one explan??
> Tnahks,
> //Sl
>
> HP W335A P4 2.5 1g mem.