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And the idle process is generally the biggest cpu consumer, because it use otherwise unused cycles to take care of the routine stuff that keeps your computer running.
Huh. Neat. I'm a big tech-ignoramus (well, as ignorant as one can be and still be a part of an online community) so I had no idea.
WINWORD isn't on the process list, but shows up on the CPU/memory area. Not sure why.
I'd understand the crawly speed if I had been working on a bunch of different applications for a while, but irritatingly, the machine is slow from the start of the day, after I just booted it up and try to open the microsoft outlook. Bah.
I'd understand the crawly speed if I had been working on a bunch of different applications for a while, but irritatingly, the machine is slow from the start of the day, after I just booted it up and try to open the microsoft outlook. Bah.
Do you have Word set as your email editor in Outlook?
I think it's entirely possible, if the virus-checker and Windows updates are being installed, that they're just taking more and more of the system's resources. I had an older computer at my previous job, and over the four or five years I was there, it became less and less functional.
I'm pretty sure the idle process actually does do stuff. It tracks how much of the CPU process is being utilized and tracks power usage. It is set to zero priority though, so that everything else prempts it.
Do you have Word set as your email editor in Outlook?
Yeap. Oh, that's probably why WORD shows up in the CPU/memory tab even though it's not in the process list.
Yeah, from that Wikipedia entry it sounds like "tracks power usage" includes powering down the CPU briefly (or reducing clock speed) in order to reduce power consumption when maximum CPU speed is not needed. (A CPU feature that started out in laptops but I think most all CPUs do that now.)
I think I've almost chosen a TV. But it doesn't have DVI input. It has instead 2 component, 2 s-video, 2 composite, 1 RF and 2 HDMI.
Once done I intend to feed it from a DVD player, an HD TiVo, and a Mac Mini. What's the best matchup of source to connection? Will I miss DVI?
You can buy DVI <--> HDMI cables. The signals sent over the wire are the same.
So which device shouldn't I put on HDMI? And what's the next best connection to use?
