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vigorsol

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So I was just looking at my CPU usage, got 12 GB's of RAM as of today, so was in the window. I noticed that alot of the CPU usage was coming up red:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/udklipt.png/

Anyone know why / what this is? Got an i5 750 @ 2.67GHz (quad)

12gb 1333hz :)
 
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antivirus scanning.....auto defrag.....indexing.....really need more info tho...screan shot of task manager programs running at the very least.
 

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red is time spent in kernel i think
 
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Yes, W1z is right. It is the Kernel info. You can dis/enable in Task Manager by going: Performance Tab > View > Show Kernel Times
 

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