Windows VIsta SideBar taking up CPU...

sugoi · 15 May 2007 at 02:07

Recently i have found that Windows Sidebar would sometimes take up a lot of my RAM and CPU, when clicking on task manager the cpu chart jumps a lot higher, and slows my pc down - very noticeable as well... anyone else experiencing this? and any solutions? i need to manually end the process and restart it for it to be fine again....

Clarkey · 15 May 2007 at 02:37

if it bothers you then don't use it, simple

sugoi · 15 May 2007 at 02:54

surely this isn't normal though is it? just randomly occurs... really was after a solution rather than just not using it....

gareth170 · 15 May 2007 at 09:04

it is normal...

everything uses the cpu.. whats the point of the cpu if it isn't being used also the same with ram....

toString · 15 May 2007 at 09:48

Lower your number of gadgets. If you have 20 'flashy' things that are utterly useless, like, measuring your cpu usage, or HDD usage, then you will just have to live with it.

sugoi · 15 May 2007 at 14:39

firstly i only have a few gadgets on the sidebar, i also have 2GB RAM,
there is definately noticeable slowdown (cpu usage jumps up and down like crazy), this is not normal of course. To be honest i think this is fair, and it might just be some bug with one of the gadgets or something. cheers for the help anyway.

Final8y · 15 May 2007 at 14:44

sugoi said:
firstly i only have a few gadgets on the sidebar, secondly i also have 2GB RAM, thirdly there is definately noticeable slowdown (cpu usage jumps up and down like crazy), this is not normal of course. To be honest i think this is fair, and it might just be some bug with one of the gadgets or something. i doubt it's something that i'm doing... cheers for the help anyway.

List your gadgets.

Neolink · 15 May 2007 at 15:30

my sidebar spikes cpu usage (only on the 2nd core for some reason) when its updaing its RSS feeds, thats the only time i've noticed it at least