In this post at poly technology we are going to talk about the ways how to fix the problem with high CPU. I had this problem and now solved this. But first of all we are going to clarify what does it means that my CPU usage is to high?
We can see CPU Usage in Task Manager(ctrl+del+del). And when i saw that my CPU usage was 100%.
A High CPU Usage means that the computer's central processing unit(CPU) is running at max level or is above normal level for the number of applications that are running in the moment that we have a high CPU usage.
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| How to see that the CPU usage is too high |
Before we go to task manager we can see that our CPU is running at max level because we are going to handle a slow performance, random shutdowns and the usual detail is that we are going to have to much hang-ups, we will find difficult to work because even the YouTube is not going to work if you open other web sites
Now what does it means that the CPU usage is High is that a given CPU has a maximum number of cycles which can be produced per second. So, the CPU have a limit about the number of processes that can handle, or have a limit about the number of instructions that can execute during one cycle.
So, is your computer running to slow? Open the Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and check the CPU usage. If your CPU usage stays at 100% all the time, there is a serious problem. Typically, your processor usage shouldn't go over 60% only if you are using large applications such as video games, or media editing programs.
Which Are The Common Causes of High CPU Usage?
The true factors that contribute to a high CPU usage and hang-ups and slow performance are different in different personal computers ore lap tops. In some times the problem may come from software error or hardware failure and the worst case is when high CPU comes from both of them. When this problem comes from both hardware or software it is very difficult to identify from what is coming this problem.
While constant, high CPU usage is not normal it will be a good idea to know first which are the common causes of high cpu usage and so you can identify the true reason why is this happening.
If your computer performs slowly and displays a high CPU usage percentage in the task manager,
then you are facing with a true problem that is causing the processor to run in this extreme speed. We have to use troubleshooting tools to accurately identify the problem, but now we are going to show some common reasons why is this happening to your processor.
High CPU Usage May Be Caused By: In this paragraph we are going to mention some reasons that may cause slow CPU, or 100 % usage, and we will explain how to fix this problems
- Overheating/Poor ventilation, you need to check your coolers if they are doing this to your processor.
- Another reason may come from Out-of-date drivers, so you need to do automatically update to your drivers.
- Running too many applications simultaneously, we usually do this but you should know which are the capacities of your CPU before running to much applications in the same time.
- Insufficient virtual memory, sometimes this is a true problem but it depends on your architecture and capacity.
- Virus/Malware infections this is the last in order but sometimes the most important. And you should remember not to use in real time two or more antiviruses, you should use once. For example you should not use in the same MCafee antivirus and Microsoft Essential or Avast, because this will cause high CPU usage. So keep this is in your mind: just one antivirus in the same time
Definitively there are other problems that may cause high CPU usage, but these are some of the most common. You should know that these guides are meant for users with some administrative skill and not following them properly can lead to serious issues, but this guide can be followed even from the persons that just know some usual things about personal computers. Anyway fill free to ask everything in the comments
Is there any easily way to FIX High CPU Usage
There are a lot of ways that can be done manually to fix high CPU usage, like showing like in the picture below the processes that are causing this problem and stopping this processes or the programs that have this processes but this way may be a little bit tough to do manually, but there are a lot of automated programs like SlimCleaner Plus.
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| Processes that are causing the high CPU usage. |
This automated program may help you to fix this problem. This program is recommend from Microsoft.
SlimCleaner Plus is a system optimizer that can seek out issues with your computer's configuration.