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System Idle Process High CPU Usage

Anonymous
2020-01-11T16:15:12+00:00

I had a Windows 7 Professional and then thought about upgrading to Windows 10 since Windows 7 is coming to end. When I upgraded to Windows 10 i got a random Blue Screen. My PC restarted i opened Task Manager and there it is 100% CPU Usage non-stop. Its really annoying i read the same problem of some guy on this kinda forum, and followed his steps. None of them worked and i'm really annoyed by Windows 10. This never happened on Windows 7 and i'm really hoping there is a way to fix this.

My PC:

CPU: Intel Core i5 2400 3,10GHz

RAM:12GB(4x3)

Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5

HDD:1TB

I found out that System Idle Process is taking too much CPU how can I fix this?

Waiting for help.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-01-11T17:25:00+00:00

    I found out that System Idle Process is taking too much CPU how can I fix this?

    The system idle process tells you for how much of the time the CPU is twiddling its thumbs. The higher the figure, the better! A totally idle CPU would show 100% for the system idle process.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-17T09:41:15+00:00

    Put this in notepad and save as .bat file.  It should drop the cpu so you can diagnose further:

    PowerCfg /SETACVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR IDLEDISABLE 000

    PowerCfg /SETACTIVE SCHEME_CURRENT

    PowerCfg /SETDCVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR IDLEDISABLE 000

    PowerCfg /SETACTIVE SCHEME_CURRENT

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-12T09:03:59+00:00

    Is there a way to fix it?

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-12T18:46:20+00:00

    OK, your CPU is running flat out but, as I mentioned before, the cause is something other than the System Idle process. Assuming that you killed Google Chrome before taking this snapshot, it must be some background process that's responsible. I recommend you do this:

    1. Run msconfig.exe.
    2. Click the Services tab.
    3. Tick the box to hide all MS services.
    4. Disable the rest.
    5. Reboot.
    6. Check if the CPU loading remains at 100%.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-12T15:59:08+00:00

     Please help me out.

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