Windows 10 high CPU

paddya

paddya

paddya

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Hi all, not been here for a while but hoping someone might be able to help. Looking at a workstation running an old Q6600 and just upgraded to Windows 10. For some reason everything you try running the CPU runs at 100% and not with any particular process.

There are the issues with the antimalware running high and I did try running a fix of installing Avira, but although my laptop, an i5-3230 installed it no issue, this desktop stuck at 100% on the installer and never really installed.

Now I know this is an old processor but reviews I've seen it's still pretty good and would have thought it would be better than this. I've found posts about the CPU's being parked and wasn't sure if this was the problem but they look ok in resource monitor.

Anybody got any suggestions please?
 
This happened with me until all the updates were downloaded and applied. There was no indication in task manager iirc, so just leave it to do it's thing. Check to see if it wants to restart every now and then and all *might* be hunky dorey after a few updates.
 
I haven't done a clean install, it was part of the free upgrade from Win 8. Don't think you can do a free install with that can you? Just checking the updates now following a restore and will make sure that everything is in.

Just found another post where it said that TM can lie about the usage and caused by mobo drivers but installed CPUID HW Monitor and that also showed it peaking.

Noticed that Speefdfan is reporting the cores at 56-62C, is that hot?
 
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I did a restore to the earliest I could find which was something like 13th December, installed avast which got rid of the antimalarial spike, found some chipset drivers for the ml110 g4 mono and completed all available updates. Seems better, spikes a bit but then sure they all do at times. He did tell me there were problems hibernating but then not sure why he needs to so can just turn off. Will monitor it for now as long as temps are ok
 
Does it spike when you are actively using it, or when its idling?

Maintenance takes over when the PC idles, unless you have it turned off.
 
Yep it is when idling and can't think of the name of the process now but was a lot grouped together including offline files
 
Ok seems to be stable now while idling but any browsing and it seems to struggle. IE was using a lot so I installed Chrome but as you will see from the pic this is also causing issues and lagging the machine.

 
A family member's laptop is doing similar, upgraded from Windows 7 to 10 and now CPU use is virtually stuck at 100%, opening a second Chrome tab cripples it.

Just as we were leaving, build 1511 was ready to install, so that might have helped.

I suggested they backup all critical files from the laptop and do a fresh install of build 1511.
 
Just after I wrote this and started to download the win 10 iso with the media creation tool it seems to be behaving.
 
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