Lately my taskbar freezes frequently and i cannot use uit for about 15 minutes and today i opened the windows task manager and proceded to the tab process and on the bottem there was a process named "system idle process" taking up 97 cpu. Is there anything i can do about this because im thinking that process taking up lots of cpu is the cause of my taskbar freezing. pplease reply with any tips or answers.
also, when i try to end the process a window comes up and says "the operation could not be completed The operation is not valid for this process"
In regard to your first post, the idle process is exactly that. A process that runs when your PC is idle (doing nothing). So a reasonable percentage is approaching 100.
I'll ask that your second post be moved to the XP forum.
System Idle Process - You cannot end this process from Task Manager.
* This process is a single thread running on each processor, which has the sole task of accounting for processor time when the system isn't processing other threads. In Task Manager, expect this process to account for the majority of processor time.
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