This is an odd one.<BR><BR>It's a duron 1200, so not really a weak system as far as regular computing goes. It was doing literally nothing.. CPU usage stayed close to 20% but in the task manager other ...

If you’ve ever launched Task Manager only to watch your CPU usage hit 100% and stay there, you may have wondered why this sudden mystery spike in system resource usage occurs. After all, Task Manager ...

You've probably done it yourself: you need to know how hard a given application is hitting your CPU, so you pull up Windows' Task Manager to check the CPU utilization. For a casual inquiry, this is ...