Windows Update - Dont Download

Hello SnarkPit,

I downloaded a Windows Update yesturday, But something in the update, will make your system idle process stick. When I was able to get something loaded, it took 2 hours.. I got my sytem monitor open, and saw my System Idle Process was at 99% freezing up my machine.

I am suggesting you dont DL this update, or if you do.. and experiance the same problem, contact windows support.. ( Like that will help ) but give it a try.

I had to do a Hard format.. so I am starting fresh.. Wow all this HD space.. what is a guy to do?

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MoneyShot said:
I had to do a Hard format.. so I am starting fresh.. Wow all this HD space.. what is a guy to do?

store some "questionable materials" :heee:

I don't believe what I am hearing. The system idle process will be at 99% or 100% when you are not doing anything, because... you guessed it... this is the process that runs when you are not using your PC for anything else (i.e. when the PC is idle). The CPU is always processing instructions no matter what you the user are asking the PC to do; the system idle process simply represents the percentage of clock cycles that are not needed for anything. System idle process on 100% means that the processor has nothing to do - if your PC still runs slow when this is the case, then you have some other issue.

I don't think so, my comp was doing that a while ago and I had to hard format about 3 times and I decided never to download that many updates ever again.

I supose the update may cause problems, but jeff is perfectly correct about what the system idle process is, and why it normaly takes up 95-100% of your cpu time.