System Idle Process 99 Win Xp
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System idle process 99 win xp. I have this problem with my laptop. The process runs in background and would measure how much idle capacity that has at any given time. In the example picture the system idle process is at 98 98 of the processor s computing power or in other words 2 of its computing power is being used. Windows task manager in windows xp showing system idle process usage at 99 indicating that no other process is using significant cpu time.
The system idle process is the amount of cpu and resources not being used so an idle process of 99 means that there is only roughly 1 of the cpu in operation. Page 1 of 3 system idle process 99 posted in windows xp home and professional. The high percent of cpu indicates that a large amount of process power is not being used. In this case just leave it alone.
System idle processes are native to windows nt operating systems dating back to 1993 they also appear in unix like operating systems such as linux but operate a bit differently. As you have done full anti virus and spyware scans we can pretty much take that out of the equation. If it is at 100 99 or 98 you may see nothing is running in background but the system idle process. The system idle process running at 99 cpu usage is quite normal and can be totally excluded.
Windows runs this process as part of the system user account so it s always active in the background while windows is running.