what does...

[Neom]

What does System Do?im not talking about system idle thingy.But latly my CPU usage has been jumping a lot.One second it will be 0 then 20 or somtimes as high as 50.and it happends even second or so.Does any body know whats up :\.

 

[riser]

Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003 only. A collective name for all operating system kernel threads.

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist_s.htm

That link should help you figure out what might not be needed in your task manager.

Check for any viruses on your machine.
Full free antivirus that is update and can be done online:

www.pandasoftware.com look for the activescan in the lower right hand corner. Excellent antivirus and out performs McAfee and Norton.

Riser

 

[EdtheROM]

Go to WWW.BLACKVIPER.COM and look at his W2K services document, which explains what they all do, and which you can kill to recover the memory and cpu cycles.

Great site for this sort of stuff


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