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What is “System Idle Process”?

April 26, 2017Computers electronics operating system system idle process troubleshooting

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What is “System Idle Process”?

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The system idle process is not a process, more like a counter which is displayed in WinTasks used for measuring how much idle time the CPU is having at any particular time. If you examine processes running in Task Manager, you’ll see System Idle Process. Unlike other processes that track resource usage, System Idle Process tracks the amount of system resources that aren’t used. Thus, a 99 in the CPU column for the process means 99% of the system resources currently aren’t being used. Hope this helps explain it easy enough..