XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.misc   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   Can anyone tell me what the SYSTEM IDLE PROCESS in Windows XP is and does?   
      
   After about half an hour of working on my computer it slows down, and takes an   
   age to respond to anything. The hard disk light shows that it is active, and   
   it looks as though something is using it and not letting any other program get   
   a look in.   
      
   When that happens I usually switch it off at the wall plug and reboot.   
      
   Today I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Delete to see if I could find what was causing this,   
   and there wasn't a program running other than ones I had started, but there   
   was a SYSTEM IDLE PROCESS that showed it was using about 75-95% of processor   
   bapacity and was presumably causing the disk to churm as well.   
      
   Does anyone have any idea what this System Idle Process is for, and why it   
   seems to consume so much in the way of computer resources. Is there any way of   
   stopping it, and would stopping it damage anything else?   
      
      
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