Im using my laptop now and ive noticed it seems rather slugish, things taking a long time to load, then suddenly loading a large chunk then taking ages again, before finally finishing loading.
Its not as bad when running off mains power but it still seems a little sluggish.
Just to check that everything was working ok I loaded up task manager and took a look at the CPU usage table, I left it running for about 5 mins and these are the reults.....
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zrbyte/...PU%20usage.JPG
Is that normal? that seems very erratic to me, Please bear in mind I left the laptop Idle while the Usage monitor was running, power management, screensavers etc are disabled so theres no chance they kicked in to cause the spikes in usage.
Running in the background I had 2x IE6 on Nthellworld.co.uk, MSN messanger 6, and assorted other background stuff (Battery monitor etc).
Only noticed this today, only changes I have made t the laptop are...
1.) from windows update I installed my modem Drivers
2.) Also from windows update I installed a processor update for all K7 Cpus (Think this could have something to do with it)
Laptop specs are as follows....
Compaq Presario 2100 Series (2143EA)
AMD Athlon 2500+ XP-M (519mhz when on batteries, 1.8Ghz when on PSU)
512mb DDR RAM
40GB hdd
ATI Radeon 340M
Thats about all thats relevent I think, Just as if you need anymore info.
So my question is.... Does that CPU usage look normal??