task manager

can someone pls explain what system idle process is on the task manager??

i have opened it up,and although cpu usage is low,on the processes tab,the system idle process is showing a figure of 90-95 on the CPU table,memory usage is 16k,so its not doind anything,
but i ma curious in what the cpu figure is?

regards

 

Hi, nothing to worry about. It is basically an indication of how much of your CPU is idle so other processes can eat into it as such.

If you check that and then check the performance tab, the cpu usage there should be the remainder....ie system idle process 97....cpu usage 3%.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

 

nice one,i thought as much

 

has anyone got a link explaining,what certain abbrevation's are in the task manager,
i havent a clue what most of them are,and whether thet are supposed to be running

 

You could try using WinPatrol to see what each processes are by name, function, location, current status, set on automatic/manual, etc....

http://www.winpatrol.com/download.html

I've included a sample pic of what it looks like on my comp...

 

nice one,thats the dogs bollox,now i can see if anything is on there running what shouldnt be running......bastards!!!!

hehehe
cheers for link,just what i was looking for

 

yeah, nice piece of software that. Just been added to my collection

Cheers

 

here is a quick library and discription to some programs,just click any program for a description and it takes you to a process library seach where you can find what you are looking for www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/