CPU is at 100% im getting worried please help

hi again people
i have just gone into my task manager as my pc seems to be very noisy it never does this normally it quiet as a mouse but it sounds like there is something running in the drive, you no when you put a disk in it sounds like that but there is no disk inside the drive. went into my task manager and my cpu usage was 100% but im hardly runnung anything. got 55 proccess running a lot of them are system proccess is it right to have that many running.

please help me

many thanks

Liam

 

in the task manager processes tab look under cpu and see which process is using the most cpu percentage

 

i just had a look at the proccess and i tried to stop explorer.exe and that made my pc crash, even when i have nothing runnung part from the usual virus scanner etc is still seems rather high, if you have any ideas i would be very glad to take them on board

cheers mate

Liam

 

Was explorer.exe using all of the cpu? I belive thats a critical process thats why it crashed when you ended it. Your os might be damaged. If you can a clean install may solve the problem quickly.

 

dont no what an os is but i restarted my pc and everything is fine cpu is running ok now from what i can see cheers for your help mate

 

Thats great! An os is short for operating system i.e. windows XP

 

OS = Operating System Ie: Windows XP, Linux, DOS.......etc Explorer.exe is the main component of ALL Microsoft OS's. Your system might have been doing a system scan, chkdsk, virus scan so if it just occurrs ever know and then no worries mate. If on the other hand it occurs on a regular bases you Might have a virus!!! Hope that helps supergallas Sorry juggalo29935 you beat me to it

 

cheers for your help mate i appriciate it a lot, by the way my pc seems to be running ok i take it i did no damage disabling that proccess that 1 time?
sorry if i sound a bit silly im just a noob to all this and dont wanna muck anything up!

cheers bud

 

Supergallas glad we could help, and no disabling explorer.exe in Task Manager that once will not cause any problems down the road. Plus you learned a valuable lesson ALWAYS double check before disabling anything, and get two or three points of view on a matter before doing anything. Some well intentioned advice can cause major headaches........Slow and Steady wins the Race

 

cheers guys you have been a massive help!!