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Old 05-14-2007, 12:38 PM   #2 (permalink)
Impulse666
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this is normal. if you watch your cpu usage it will peak like that when you start large programs. then it goes back to idle when it has pulled the program info from the HDD and into RAM. if it settles back down to zero after a few seconds when you start it you're fine. this is totally normal.
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