System Idle Process at 99%, when it should be at 0%.?

Question

Ok, Seen this before, yet never seen a REAL answer, just a definition of what the System Idle Process is. I want to know why the I'm getting a System Idle at 99% when IT SHOULD NOT BE IDLE. Let's say I'm browsing the web, playing browser based game, and listening to music. Any ideas why the computer would decide to blow off the CURRENTLY RUNNING PROCESSES, and go for a smoke break? I'm not talking about boot-up, I'm not talking about what it's doing while I'm sleeping. While I'm ACTIVELY USING THE PC, running processes, why would it spike and stay at 99% requiring task manger based killing of running programs or a reboot to unfreeze.
I use an Anti-Virus that loads off CD w/ it's own OS, which is current. So no AV issues in the Background.
All I can figure is that there is something else running which is masking it's self as the System Idle Process, but I have no idea how to tell if this is the case.
Again, please, don't tell me it's just what the Computer does when it has nothing else to do. It's doing it INSTEAD of what it's supposed to do.

Answer 1

Open task manager and take a peek at the processes running. ~

Answer 2

I checked my task manager, and I got the VLC player playing and browsing the web and system idle is 95% I think you misunderstood what system idle actually means. Just google up 'idle task' on Wikipedia and you have your answer.



In other words, if the idle task is "chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles", that's normal: it simply means your CPU isn't working very hard on anything at the moment.



If you follow the above answer's advice, you will be forever unistalling and re-installing till hell freeze over and you will never achieve that. Just quit worrying about the high percentage of system idle. It's perfectly normal.



edit@ That is not a good analogy, first of all a PC is not a car. You can't compare an orange to an apple.



If you got freezing issue, that is what event viewer is there for. Have you looked in there to see what is causing it?

Answer 3

process idle method is must be at ninety nine% or one hundred% while not anything else is utilizing reminiscence, it suggests that the laptop is idle and now not processing something Edit: but when your cpu utilization placed on the backside of the window is ninety nine% or extra appear for one other application instead of process idle method and terminate it

Answer 4

If your computer is freezing it has nothing to do with the system idle process, it's usage is just reflecting the fact that nothing or little is happening.

Answer 5

You have a malware issue - just because you have anti-virus program running does not mean that you do not have a virus or malware on your system, I see it all the time with McAfee,Norton,Avria,Kypersky,

usewww. avast.com and http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html

these are both free since you have the disk for the software - uninstall your program and run these.You can only have 1 anti- virus running - malwarebytes is anti-malware and does not affect your anti-virus program