CPU power and %ages.

[Spec-Kie]

Alright guys,

I have a bit of a query. My P4HT 3.00ghz with 1.5 gig of ram, Its still going strong, Only thing is at the minute its a bit sluggish compare to what it normally runs at, See i only use it mainly for PS and messing around with different software ya see, But yesturday like i was saying it was runing pretty sluggish, So i checked the usage %s of the VM and the CPU, And with oonly google chrome running it was using like 75% of my CPU power and about 60% of my VM, I know this is not good and i am stumped in what it could be ?. Its windows Vista HP. No overclocking or any thing soo is it a case of it been F****ed?. Or it there a solution to my computer being greedy for my CPU and VM Cheers,

 

[argedion]

sounds like some kind of background process is running and using your cpu may need to monitor those and kill the ones that don't need to be running.

 

[Spec-Kie]

Thing is i dont have any thing i can think of to be running ya see, Alls i use the it has an antivirus, google chrome photoshop and some other bits and bobs. Thing is it was an upgrade install ya see, So i didnt have to wipe my drives, Do you reckon i need to do i full wipe and install?. its got me stumped thats all cause when it was on XP it was fine kept the cpu usage down to a minumal.

 

[argedion]

I would take it back to XP then to keep vista. IF you can afford it get a windows 7 disk and use that instead

 

[Spec-Kie]

Alright then, Thats cool thank you for your help, I always thought that
vista was a bit heavy excellent i will give that ago then thank you.