Posted: 10/30/2008 5:35:29 PM EDT
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remember the "good olde days" where you had systray and explorer running and everything else wasn't needed?
whats the equivalent for XP? I FUCKING HATE software that things it's so fucking important that it's got to start at boot and run 100% for no fucking reason!!!! 
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remember the "good olde days" where you had systray and explorer running and everything else wasn't needed? whats the equivalent for XP? I FUCKING HATE software that things it's so fucking important that it's got to start at boot and run 100% for no fucking reason!!!! 52 processes running sounds about normal to me, but whenever I have to call tech support for any software package they bitch I have too many process running. I only have installed and running what IS put there, and as few other applications as I need for work, but I still end up with a metric shit ton of apps running that I don't know if they even have any value, and if I need, or even can, delete them. I have one app that never fully shuts down, and I can't figure out which process to kill to make it. The lousy part about that, is in order to archive my work, I have to reboot in order to get all of the process's shut down, so that the file is no longer in use and can be archived. Once, I was rebooting in order to do just that, and my hard drive crashed, I lost a whole days work because the software sucks. |
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System idle process is using as much as 99% of my cpu. This just started two/three days ago after I installed then uninstalled Norton Internet Security. HELP! Did you use the Norton Removal Tool? It's probably rtvscan hogging resources but by the time you look at taskmgr it's done. |
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System idle process is using as much as 99% of my cpu. This just started two/three days ago after I installed then uninstalled Norton Internet Security. HELP! LAWL! Normal. System idle process means your CPU is 99% idle. As in, its not doing anything. -Foxxz |
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System idle process is using as much as 99% of my cpu. This just started two/three days ago after I installed then uninstalled Norton Internet Security. HELP! like foxxz said this is normal. every xp machine idle process is taking up 99%of the cpu norton still sucks, but at least we know its not the problem THIS time 
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