what in the world is system idle process? i have been having issues with my destop for the last several months and when i go to task manager and check processes i see that 98-99% of the cpu is being used by system idle process. the system is old (1.9ghz.), but the hard drive is only 66% full. the disk shows 2 hairline red sectors. what is the major malfunction?
System idle process is when the system is sitting at idle, the system idle processor starts taking over. As more tasks appear you will see the system idle process go down in the percentage of cpu usage. If it is at 98% that means there is not much going on in your cpu.
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