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Can someone help explain why "System Idle Processes" are greatly slowing my computer at startup?
October 21, 2010
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i have kaspersky anty-virus personal pro. yes it is a verry good anty-virus and if u don’t find any viruses with it i would say that u have no choice but to reinstall windows but before u would do that i would make backup cd’s of all ur importante files
It is normal that your System Idle Process is high and does not actually use 100% of the system resources. If you want a good definition of the system idle process you can look it up but what you should be looking at is what you have set to run at startup and your system’s hardware. Without you telling us we don’t know if you have a 3.0 GHZ with 2 Gig of RAM or a 1.0 GHZ with 256 MB of RAM. As for your question on reinstalling windows I say yes but without seeing your specs or what you have running on it I can’t say that it will completely fix your problem. At some point a PC with all the garbage someone has installed, uninstalled, and played with just needs a clean install. I recently had to fix a laptop that was freezing for 10 minutes at a time and it turned out to be a single weather program a user had installed causing all the trouble.
The "System Idle Process" application is just that. It tells you how much of your computer is idle at a given point in time. If your computer is sitting at 100%, then you should have no problems getting started. Maybe if you check the number of items you have set in the STARTUP menu to see what is actually starting up when you power on your computer, you will have a better idea of what is showing you down. I have noticed that having IM or Shareware programs start upon power up, it tends to slow down your system initialization.
Another method to speed up your computer, that could be dangerous, is to turn off the automatic updates on your Antivirus, and other applications.
Have you Run Disk Cleanup and Defrag? System Idle Process is not actually using that much processore time. See Microsoft articles about System Idle Process.
1. Goto Start–>Run …type "msconfig"
2. Click Startup tab
3. Uncheck whatever you don’t want to start at startup.