System Idle process slowing my comp to a crawl

firemanntomm · Jan 6, 2007

Hello...After using my computer for a while, and visiting different web sites my computer starts to get very, very slow. I have downloaded process explorer, and when I check my system I see that my system idle process is at nearly 100% as well as my cpu usage. Nothing else is showing up as using cpu to any great extent, so I know it's my system idle....I double click on system idle process, and check the tcp/ip tab, and there are maybe 50 different web sites in there in different modes..some are connecting, some disconnecting, some listening, others in wait time mode......I reboot my computer to start over with a clean slate, and it will work well again until the tcp/ip area is clogged up again. I am using spyware doctor, and have run scans with adaware, spybot search and destroy.
any idea what is going on?
I am running windows xp..1 gig ram, 80g of hard drive 12g available, abit kr7a, amd athlon 1.3 gb..system is about four years old. I haven't added any new hardware or software lately.
Any thoughts greatly appreciated, and thanks.
Tom

DavidGP · Jan 6, 2007

Hi

System Idle at 90-100% is a normal occurance it means your CPU is idle and not doing any tasks, sometimes you do gain TCP/IP entries in Idle Process, as many softwares do have idle processes listening to outgoing ports.

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System Idle process slowing my comp to a crawl

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