Thread: how do I figure out what's using all my CPU?
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Old 08-12-2009, 11:02 AM  
Antonio
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Originally Posted by Wolfy View Post
can't be firefox alone, I'm running similar setups on 5 different PCs and this is the only one that does it.

Clicking "processes" and viewing the memory usage doesn't give me any huge hints... firefox is the only one that's consistently high, and like I said - the problem is unique to this PC, not Firefox.
click processes, scroll to the right, look under CPU -> it's your anti-virus (my giess) - these are always CPU hogs
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