CPU Runs at 100% At all Times

[davidvkimball]

Hey EightForums community.

I don't know why, for some reason, my CPU is always at 100%. I double-check under the Performance tab and it confirms it.

As soon as I close the offending programs that are eating up the usage, other processes just take its place.

Here are a few examples:



I did a malware scan via MalwareBytes and used Windows Defender, restarted the system and still can't figure out what's wrong.

The OS is on an SSD that was installed on it a few months ago, so relatively new system.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

David

 

[arachnaut]

To me it looks like you have several instances of windows search running, along with Perfect Disk defragmenting, along with a malware scan and Zune sharing.

That's a lot of simultaneous disk usage. Wait until windows search completes its indexing and PD finished defragmenting and the malware finished running, etc.

Then see how things looks.

 

[popeye]

Can also set some of the offending services to manual instead of automatic before stopping them.

It is best, in my opinion, to keep third party services to a minimum and set them to manual if possible.

 

[Eaglesailor]

So you bring up task manager....then you see your CPU chart and it shows some running programs going to 100%....? You may have unknown programs running in the background....unknown and probably unwanted...possibly. In XP, I could go to "SAFE MODE" and run a softwear like SuperAntiSpy, or an 'autorun' checker. There are lots of good 'freeware' programs to download and run......WINDOWS 8.1 has me over the barrel.....They rearranged the furnature.......and there is a way to 'SAFE MODE' ....but Windows hasn't made it easy to find it...in 8.1

 

[popeye]

Msconfig.exe

 

[Eaglesailor]

POP EYE.......'Safe boot' in System Configuration' is unknown to me. 8.1 .............I could help you if in XP.....I also am looking into 8.1....I find almost everything I have found.......the same as XP...but the furnature has been re-arranged....meaning there is really no difference...or little difference...from WINDOWS 8....or 8.1.....to what WINDOWS XP was.....other than REARRANGING the furnature....along with a few minor kicks and bangs....for effect!

 

[Eaglesailor]

Your Dog......avatar....

I have a photo from 1986....that resembles very closely to my 'Jacques' born in southern Maryland in 1983, a German Shorthair and English Setter..mix.........He's long gone, lived 12 and a half years....and was loved by a community....he made front page climbing a ladder onto a boat in the "New London Day" Connecticut news paper, 1986.

 

[popeye]

Thanks, he is my buddy. A Heeler/Brittany mix I believe. Starting to worry about him, he is 11+ years now. Will be devastated when he goes, but have to just love them while they're here and give them a good life.

 

[JHough]

http://www.eightforums.com/performance-maintenance/56761-disk-usage-100-a.html lists tracking down the culprits. Sometimes windows defragger and a third party defragger make my system useless, until the defraggers finish.