XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.misc   
   From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
      
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Idle_Process   
      
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