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    From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 29 09:10:05 2023
    Apologies if I have asked this before.

    My desktop keeps slowing down and when I pull up task manager it shows
    around 95% CPU usage but quickly drops to nearer 20% before I can see
    what is using the CPU.

    Is there anything that can log this for me so I can see what the culprit is?

    Many thanks.

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    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not
    expect to sit.

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 29 09:54:12 2023
    On 29/04/2023 in message <kb475cFc9gnU1@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns
    wrote:

    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    My desktop keeps slowing down and when I pull up task manager it shows >>around 95% CPU  usage but quickly drops to nearer 20% before I can see >>what is using the CPU.

    Is there anything that can log this for me so I can see what the culprit >>is?

    Leave the SysInternals Process Explorer running, with the System
    Information dialog open, when you mouseover the CPU graph it'll tell you
    what it was eating the processor at that time, it's not for long-term
    logging but it should have a few minutes of history.

    Alternatively Performance Monitor (not the baby-brother version called >Resource Monitor that you can launch from Task Manager) and click the "+"
    to add cpu/memory counters that are interesting

    Many thanks Andy :-)

    I think you may have told me this before, I will put it in my help file
    this time!

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    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Sat Apr 29 10:43:08 2023
    Jeff Gaines wrote:

    My desktop keeps slowing down and when I pull up task manager it shows
    around 95% CPU  usage but quickly drops to nearer 20% before I can see
    what is using the CPU.

    Is there anything that can log this for me so I can see what the culprit
    is?

    Leave the SysInternals Process Explorer running, with the System
    Information dialog open, when you mouseover the CPU graph it'll tell you
    what it was eating the processor at that time, it's not for long-term
    logging but it should have a few minutes of history.

    Alternatively Performance Monitor (not the baby-brother version called
    Resource Monitor that you can launch from Task Manager) and click the
    "+" to add cpu/memory counters that are interesting

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  • From David@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Sun Apr 30 11:58:30 2023
    On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 09:10:05 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Apologies if I have asked this before.

    My desktop keeps slowing down and when I pull up task manager it shows
    around 95% CPU usage but quickly drops to nearer 20% before I can see
    what is using the CPU.

    Is there anything that can log this for me so I can see what the culprit
    is?

    Many thanks.

    Task Manager itself eats CPU for a short while as it starts up.
    This may be what you are seeing.


    Cheers


    Dave R


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