system idle process?

[operative x]

My computer has been lately running so damn slow so i checked the processes tab and at the bottum it says 'system idle process' taking 80% of my cpu. Can anyone help?!?!??! plz!!

[Martoch]

That just means that 80% of your cpu is available while it is idle, nothing is utilizing it at the moment...not a bad thing.

[sam]

thats nornal , just means that your computer is at idle, other process are using 20% and 80% is at idle(not being used)

[operative x]

DANM! well that sucks now i have no leads to why my computer just suddenly got so amazingly slow...

[MrPurple]

my system has started to run slow too. I would sugest on defraging (yes you still should do it once in a while if you are using NTFS), running a spy ware clean up utility would be good too. Also run a registry clean up utility.

Only other thing is to check the processes you have running and check how much RAM they are taking up.

[Gettinbye]

That's not the reason your computer is running slow-in fact, all that is telling you is that your computer is at 20% load. That's not a bad thing. As far as slow performance, have you done a disk cleanup and defrag in a while?
*EDIT* oops, little slow on the typing...

[Atomic Rooster]

Hey cool. I always wondered what the "System Idle Process" was. Thanks alot. Just goes to show ya you learn something new every day.