System Idle Process

[ultipig]

I like Windows XP, but it has a few things that bug me, one being the system idle process.

I have a class named "StRUT." It stands for "Students Recycle Unwanted Technology." I was rifling through some old stuff and found an old GX270. I fixed it up and installed XP Professional. I asked my administrator if I could have the system, and I'm running it right now at my house. It's rather old but nice, running a P4 (my favorite CPU ) 3 ghz, the fastest pga Pentium 4 I know of.

It's running slowly now because of System Idle Process. When I resumed the PC from being Idle for about 45 minutes a while ago, I checked Task Manager. To my disgust, the CPU was running at 50%, and continued to do so for the next ten minutes, without any programs open. I tried going to Pandora, and it lagged horrendously. It usually doesn't.

I've read about SIP on other websites, but haven't been able to wrap my mind around why this thing exists.

Any information would be helpful. I would also like to know how to stop this, as when I try to end the process it yells at me saying that "The operation is not valid for this process."

Thanks forum peoples.

 

[linkin]

system idle process in win xp is just a process that tells you how much of the cpu is free to use. in most cases, it will display 99%. something else is eating up your usage.

EDIT: my P4 system also had issues resuming from sleep or standby. Check your BIOS for sleep mode settings or whatever, also make sure that windows is configured properly. I bet you have many processes runnng without the programs open. msconfig time.