Low CPU usage - 0% Is this normal

[orygano]

Is it normally such a low CPU usage, I have Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.

Even how to turn Virtual PC software from Adobe is still low CPU usage. Most of them have 0% CPU usage


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[crazy359]

Lol low is good. when its at like 15% doing NOTHING that means u might have a virus.

 

[shovenose]

Lol low is good. when its at like 15% doing NOTHING that means u might have a virus.

really? hmmm. that explains why my laptop is being idiotic!

 

[crazy359]

run SPYBOT. best program

 

[Guest]

Lol low is good. when its at like 15% doing NOTHING that means u might have a virus.

In windows 7 the file search indexing service starts by default, it uses around 10-15% (at least for me).

Quite a waste considering it doesn't even seem to make searches much faster. I disabled it in services.msc and my idle usage went right down to 0-1%.

 

[Guest]

really? hmmm. that explains why my laptop is being idiotic!

If you run Windows 7, try disabling the windows search indexing service, at least I think that's what they call it.

You can use services.msc to disable the service from startup, I forget what the service is called, but is something like "windows file search indexing service", Google it and you should find the right one to disable.