System Idle process absorbing resources...
I'm hoping someone can explain why a process, System Idle process is using 99% of my CPU resources sometimes.
This is the line that comes up in the task manager processes page:
System Idle process SYSTEM 99 20 K
it just starts happening for no apparent reason and runs for several minutes completely stopping me from doing anything else.
I have cleaned spyware and bots etc and am virus free. I have a firewall and so on but cannot seem to figure out what this is.
Help !