my cpu is always at 100%

[CrazyColaist]

right my CPU is always at 100% and i dont know why.

someone help me reduce it?

the programs using most of my CPU is firefox (20-30%) MSN at (10-20%) and then bitcomet (10-20%)

[GommeInc]

What CPU is it? For example:

Intel Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66GHz

It will be useful to mention this, so whoever can find a solution (incase the chip is a bit weak and powerless) :)

[CrazyColaist]

Pentium Dual Core t4300 @2.10GHz

my laptops a 64-Bit aswell so most programs run at 64-bit so it could increase the usage right?

[Recursion]

If it's not slowing down, then let it be

[HotelUser]

Go to task manager click processes and watch to see if there's any one process using a lot of your CPU. That was the case on my moms laptop, some old Microsoft Works calendar process was using all of her CPU.

[Technologic]

I get this problem too and there are no processes showing in task manager above 5%

[CrazyColaist]

yeh but its firefox and really i need firefox open lol

[Arch]

time to buy a new computer :O

[CrazyColaist]

its 2 months old.......

[Laurensh1]

Well - the non-active system things shouldn't be looked at.

When you have Firefox open - What do you have open? Lots of pages?
Do you have any add-ons that might slurp stuff?

[Jahova]

Somthing has gone wrong there. Driver fault? Hardware?

[Arch]

check some programs being used, for me have certain programs running which you can choose to take up max CPU or normal or even low CPU you might also have that option on certain things so turn them all to low ?

[Jordy]

Open up Run (Hold down Windows Key + R), type in msconfig

And click the "Startup" tab, untick any unnecessary programs which begin when you login to Windows. This should stop any unnecessary applications adding to your CPU Processes. Make sure you don't untick any Microsoft processes though otherwise you'll mess your PC up :P

[CrazyColaist]

when i look at whats using my CPU its mainly firefox using about 30-50% now and ive got 3 tabs (Facebook 2x and hxf) especially when im using fb chat :l

[Jordy]

First of all, try another browser, if you want low memory usage. I would suggest the latest Opera version or Safari for the lowest memory usage. Here's a graph comparing them (Firefox some how performs well here but it's best to ignore it when it comes to Firefox as it's so varying)

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/17/2009/09/500x_agg_memory_use.jpg

I also suggest disabling Facebook Chat. If you want to talk to people using Facebook Chat, use a service like Meebo.com which doesn't pass over all the crappy bugs built into it.

[The Professor]

Or WLM like the rest of britain :P

[brandon]

its 2 months old.......
Does it have Windows 7? When I got my laptop 2 months ago it was using 100% because of 'wmpnetwk.exe'

Technologic, If you go Ctrl + Alt + Del and 'Start Task Manager', click the 'Processes' tab, tick the box that says 'Show processes for all users' that might show you some processes that weren't there before.

[CrazyColaist]

yeahh w7



on the process tab i dont have wmpnetwk.exe so lol. its firefox i know it is lol.