[Ham-Computers] Windows task manager

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Brian,

Someone else will probably have to tell you how to find out what's taking up 
the CPU time but the short answer. assuming that you mean it does that 
immediately after a reboot and before you start anything manually, is NO!  That very 
much isn't normal.  Something appears to be maxing out the CPU all the time.

This current system board running W2K, another machine here, the three 
previous system boards in this box and a newer laptop running XPPro all idle at 2 to 
3% after reboot and at any time that no programs other than those that start 
at boot time are running.  Except when one of those latter do an update 
autocheck or something like that or when my wife is running an ap that accesses SQL 
Server which is on this machine.

Boot the thing in SAFE mode without networking and see whether it still 
happens.

In a message dated 7/23/2008 5:07:00 PM Central Daylight Time, 
ka5bkg at sbcglobal.net writes: 
> Hello to the group. If you recall I was having some probs with slowing my 
> computer down here a couple days ago and it still is, but have been doing 
> some testing and trying to figure out what route I will take.
> 
> My question is, since I have been having these probs I have had Windows task 
> 
> manager open to see if maybe it would shed some light on anything.
> 
> And since I hardly ever you that feature I have noticed something and want 
> to know if this is normal.
> 
> When I bring up task manager, I have a Green box in my toolbar that says CPU 
> 
> Usage, and it never goes off of being solid green or 100%....Is that normal?
> 
> It seems within the last 2 days one time it did go down to 23% and man was 
> the system here was fast once again.
> 
> Anybody have any suggestions or what else I might look for.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian 
> 
> 

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