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Title: CPU resources at 100% - Help please
Post by: Batch on February 15, 2010, 14:33:15 PM
I upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista when it released as preordered from Amazon.

Lately, I noticed my system running a bit sluggish and found that my CPU resources are usually 100%.

I found currently that iTunes and Opera are 2 of the culprits of that when I check my Task Manager along with MSN Messenger.

Is there a way to fix this problem? Any solutions are much appreciated.

Thanks.  8-)

Title: CPU resources at 100% - Help please
Post by: White Giant on February 15, 2010, 15:39:57 PM
Dont use em? :)

Plenty of alternatives for both.
Title: Re:CPU resources at 100% - Help please
Post by: Batch on February 15, 2010, 17:36:03 PM
Opera 10.5 is fine but its usually iTunes that does the problem.

Any iTunes alternatvie as I got an iphone and have to use iTunes to put music onto it.
Title: Re:CPU resources at 100% - Help please
Post by: zpyder on February 15, 2010, 19:11:31 PM
I think at some point a while ago iTunes on my computer started to do something similar and it ended up being due to the kontiki/kservice skyplayer thingymajig.
Title: Re:CPU resources at 100% - Help please
Post by: Batch on February 15, 2010, 20:00:19 PM
Any fix for iTunes to prevent it happening?
Title: Re:CPU resources at 100% - Help please
Post by: knighty on February 15, 2010, 21:05:53 PM
in task manager, under the processes tab, go view / select colums

and add the ones for cpu, cpu time, ane memory etc....


always helps with this kind of problem solving ;)
Title: Re:CPU resources at 100% - Help please
Post by: Batch on February 16, 2010, 17:31:37 PM
Thanks knighty. What am I looking for when I have done this?
Title: CPU resources at 100% - Help please
Post by: knighty on February 16, 2010, 21:34:03 PM
anything thats miles ahead of the other stuff running...
loads of cpu time, or mem used...

right now...  I have...

system idle process 984 hours
firefox 10 hours
bit torrent just over an hour

and everything else is practially only a few min or sec...
(mine is on 24/7 doing nothing most of the time)


might not help you at all.... but has helped me a few times in the past :-)
Title: Re:CPU resources at 100% - Help please
Post by: Batch on February 21, 2010, 22:41:05 PM
Cheers for that. Appreciate it. Maybe I need a PC to replace my 3 year old laptop which as a 1.66GHz processor in (Intel Dual Core).
Title: Re:CPU resources at 100% - Help please
Post by: Bacon on February 22, 2010, 04:05:39 AM
How much RAM you got?
Title: Re:CPU resources at 100% - Help please
Post by: Batch on February 22, 2010, 20:49:39 PM
Currently 2GB. I already upgraded it once from 512MB.