What is average CPU usage?

Question

My computer is showing CPU Usage: 100%. Is this normal?

Press control+Alt+Delete keys together and click on "Windows Task Manager".
On the bottom of this window you will see running tasks, CPU usage, and currently ram in use.

Please check your CPU usage and let me know... I want to know if 100% CPU usage is normal or not...

If this is not normal, please let me know how to fix it?

Answer 1

Well if your computer is idle about 3-7% is normal. But, it should not be at 100% for extended times.



You should definitely scan for spyware to make sure your computer is not infested. This can cause mutiple programs and process to be loaded into CPU access and RAM thus making your CPU usage high. However, you should monitor it to make sure that the spikes in usage are temporary or constant. Constant would indicate a virus. Monitor it by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del. This brings up the task manager. Check out the link below to see visuals.



Here are some ways to cut down down on CPU access

Disable the amount of services running in the background-- You can do this by altering your computer configuration. Here is how:

1. Open your Start menu.

2. Click Run

3. In the command screen type "msconfig.exe"

4. In the "system configuration utility",click either "service" or "startup" tab

5. Uncheck all programs that your are no longer using.

6. Click "OK"



If you haven't cleaned your registry in a while. This is necessary. Your registry holds all the information regarding updates, installs, un-installs etc. Each one of those events has

a key. and that key need your PC's resources. So, if you should clean this up. Do a registry scan if you got more than 20 errors you should clean it. Also your Operating System will constantly try to fix these errors which cause spikes in CPU access.

http://www.delete-computer-history.com/what-is-the-best-registry-cleaner.html



You should also check to see what programs are running in your task manager. If you see a program like svchost.exe. You may need to clear this program in order to return your computer back to normal CPU access time. There are several ways to do this. Here is one of them.



1. Click Start | Run (type) "services.msc" (no quotes)

2. Scroll down to "DNS Client", Right-click and select: Properties

3. Click the drop-down arrow for "Startup type"

4. Select: Manual, click Apply/Ok and restart.

(IF you are the only PC user, and not part of a domain.)

That also eliminates one SVCHOST process in Task Manager



Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Normal Cpu Usage

Answer 3

100% CPU usage is NOT normal. With Task Manager open, go to the Applications tab and close any that are listed as (Not Responding).



In the Processes tab, it shows a list of the names of the executable files currently running. If you see one that you recognize (winword is Word from MS Office, for example), and it's using a huge percentage, you can close it here if closing in Applications doesn't work. But be careful what you close. If you don't know what it is, leave it running and find out what it is BEFORE you decide whether to close it.



A question-and-answer format like this one isn't the best or easiest place to tell what all those processes are. Look them up in a site like the Windows Process Library (link below). Eventually, you'll get a feel for which processes are legitimate and which might indicate a problem with the computer.



And if all else fails, reboot the computer. Unless you have a program that's improperly installed, that will get the computer to straighten itself out.

Answer 4

100% usage of CPU for a long time is bad. If you are running some processes, the CPU usage maybe hight (50%). But if the usage remain 100% for a long period of time, then your computer is experiencing some problems (Virus is possible). Try your virus scan and spy-ware scan if your computer allow you to do so.

Answer 5

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RE:

What is average CPU usage?

My computer is showing CPU Usage: 100%. Is this normal?



Press control+Alt+Delete keys together and click on "Windows Task Manager".

On the bottom of this window you will see running tasks, CPU usage, and currently ram in use.



Please check your CPU usage and let me know... I want...

Answer 6

no, something is wrong. see a tech.



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www.safernetworking.org



spybot search and destroy - it will remove spyware that could be causeing this. there are also many other things that can cause this, but almost all are fixable.