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CPU at 100%
Hello
Can anyone help with the following: Everytime we run a program that requires some processing, eg: running disk cleanup, or a large excel spreadsheet or document, the CPU usage for that process increases to 100% and it take a long time, more than a few minutes, for the operation to finish. The PCs specs is P4 2.4Ghz with 512MB RAM and XP SP3. Please can you assist |
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CPU at 100%
There's nothing particularly unusual about that.
--- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 (PC Magazine) http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2326848,00.asp Zakaria wrote: Hello Can anyone help with the following: Everytime we run a program that requires some processing, eg: running disk cleanup, or a large excel spreadsheet or document, the CPU usage for that process increases to 100% and it take a long time, more than a few minutes, for the operation to finish. The PCs specs is P4 2.4Ghz with 512MB RAM and XP SP3. Please can you assist |
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CPU at 100%
Add more memory. You only have 512MB of memory.
-- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.paulsxp.com www.paulsxp.com/forum www.supportspace.com/home/home.s2?aiu=paulm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Zakaria" wrote in message ... Hello Can anyone help with the following: Everytime we run a program that requires some processing, eg: running disk cleanup, or a large excel spreadsheet or document, the CPU usage for that process increases to 100% and it take a long time, more than a few minutes, for the operation to finish. The PCs specs is P4 2.4Ghz with 512MB RAM and XP SP3. Please can you assist |
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