re: Jumpy cpu usage Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 4:07 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Spexx (1951 messages posted) In Task Manager, Performance tab, select View and check "Show Kernel Times". When the CPU is "spiking", does the CPU time show up in mostly red or mostly green? If green, you may be able to identify a troublesome process in the Processes tab as the cause. If it is in red, you may have a bad device driver or something like that. Some types of anti-malware programs, such as Spybot TeaTimer, will do periodic scans which show up as CPU spikes, but these are generally at low priority and should not interfere with normal use. If you would post up a copy of the bootlog I would be happy to go over it for you to check for a suspect device driver. Cheers. Spexx. Written in response to: re: Jumpy cpu usage (bob: Monday, August 18, 2008 at 3:18 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Jumpy cpu usage (bob: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 12:46 am) re: Jumpy cpu usage (MartinM: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 1:50 am) re: Jumpy cpu usage (bob: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 2:43 am) re: Jumpy cpu usage (Spexx: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 2:47 am) re: Jumpy cpu usage (bob: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 3:18 am) re: Jumpy cpu usage (Spexx: Tue, Aug 19, 2008, 4:07 am) re: Jumpy cpu usage (MartinM: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 6:38 am) re: Jumpy cpu usage (bob: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 4:33 pm) re: Jumpy cpu usage (cogs: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 4:49 pm) re: Jumpy cpu usage (cogs: Mon, Aug 18, 2008, 4:55 pm) re: Jumpy cpu usage (wolfmaster: Thu, Aug 21, 2008, 10:33 am) re: Jumpy cpu usage (Spexx: Thu, Aug 21, 2008, 10:41 am) re: Jumpy cpu usage (MartinM: Tue, Aug 19, 2008, 1:59 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum