Most systems consider 80% to be in the "decent" range. Certainly the more programs you are running the larger decrease in your systems performance percentage, so try to keep it above the 80% level if possible. It only takes a couple of busy programs to drop it considerably.
My Dell laptop with win2k runs at 2-5% kernel processor usage, when no apps are actually working at anything.
Yet my Dell Dimension xps t600 runs at 50% cpu usage when nothing is running but norton AV 2003 and Zone Alarm, both in the background. I even turned off all the usual hogs like Find Fast and systray.exe.
It is NOT usual to have anything like this high percentage of processor usage! And it really degrades performance.
From other comments on this forum it sounds like many many Dell machines have this problem.
flyer09
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August 16th, 2000 16:00
Most systems consider 80% to be in the "decent" range. Certainly the more programs you are running the larger decrease in your systems performance percentage, so try to keep it above the 80% level if possible. It only takes a couple of busy programs to drop it considerably.
dougsager
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July 23rd, 2003 10:00
My Dell laptop with win2k runs at 2-5% kernel processor usage, when no apps are actually working at anything.
Yet my Dell Dimension xps t600 runs at 50% cpu usage when nothing is running but norton AV 2003 and Zone Alarm, both in the background. I even turned off all the usual hogs like Find Fast and systray.exe.
It is NOT usual to have anything like this high percentage of processor usage! And it really degrades performance.
From other comments on this forum it sounds like many many Dell machines have this problem.