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High CPU usage

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Hi e1. I am having over heating and high CPU usage due to back ground programs running and/or system startup programs running and I dont know where to go to find these programs to disable and/or delete. plz help getting very frustrated. I have to keep a fan blowing on my laptop to keep it cool during some games I play. tyvm ♥

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You can open Task Manager by right clicking on the task bar.
Go to the processes tab and click on "Display all processes" button at the bottom.
Then click the "CPU" tab at the top. It should sort all of your processes by CPU utilization. "System Idle Process" should be ignored, as it's the 'idle' time of the CPU.
When you find the process which uses up the CPU time, you can right click on it and select Open File Location. Then you can end the process and delete the file in the explorer window.
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Re: High CPU usage

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The Coolest wrote:You can open Task Manager by right clicking on the task bar.
Go to the processes tab and click on "Display all processes" button at the bottom.
Then click the "CPU" tab at the top. It should sort all of your processes by CPU utilization. "System Idle Process" should be ignored, as it's the 'idle' time of the CPU.
When you find the process which uses up the CPU time, you can right click on it and select Open File Location. Then you can end the process and delete the file in the explorer window.
tyvm for this info. If I delete these processes will it cause some programs not to work and if so how do I know which processes r safe to delete? ♥

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Did you identify what process it is that's eating CPU time? I can't answer that question without knowing what that process is.
Main rig:
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (True Spirit 140 Direct) / Mobo: Asrock Fatal1ty X470 / EVO 970 500GB + WD Blue 250GB + HDD / GPU: Dell RX 570 4GB / Mem: 2x16GB DDR4-3200 G.Skill 32GTZKW TridentZ - 32GB total / PSU: Seasonic Prime Ultra Gold 650W
NAS:
Core i7 2600K 3.4GHz @ 4.3GHz (Scythe Mugen2) / Mobo: Biostar TP67XE / 2x Inland Pro 120GB + HDDs / GPU: ATi Mach64 VT2 / Mem: 4x4GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill 8GBXL RipJawsX - 16GB total / PSU: Seasonic S12II 620W.
Secondary rigs:
Core i3 7130U / MiniPC / SanDisk SDSSDP-128G / GPU: Intel HD 620 / Mem: 1x8GB DDR3L-1600
Xeon X3430 2.40GHz @ 3.06GHz or Core i3 540 3.06GHz @ 4.0GHz (Freezer 7 Pro) / Mobo: MSI H55M-ED55 / PNY CS1111 240GB / GPU: ATI FirePro V3800 / Mem: 4x2GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill 4GBRL RipJaws - 8GB total / PSU: Seasonic S12II 620W
AMD Phenom II X4 B93 / Mobo: ASUS M2A-VM / GPU: ATI Radeon Xpress X1250 / Crucial M4 120GB / Mem: 2x2GB DDR2-800 - 4GB total / PSU: Antec 380W.

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