What is System Idle Process and why is it taking so much resource?

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Cogman

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Don't listen to those guys. System Idling is really a codeword for a harmful computer virus. Basicly, it causes your computer to slowly emmit harmfull thermal radiation while taxing your system to pieces. There are only a few ways to combat this,

1. Turn off you computer and never us it again.
2. Subscribe to folding@home.
3. find any 'ole bios rom and flash your motherboard with it.
4. Delete the boot.ini file (I believe it is in your systems folder).
5. install Linux
6. install Dos
7. install Crysis
8. Get a 30-30 and shoot the computer at about the middle That should fix it.

Hopefully, that will solve your problem, if not, let me know (But for goodness sake, don't email me, it will only make the virus worse)

You can write to me at

Santa S. Clause
P.O. Box 321
Northpole, Canida 83773

Hope that helped.

*edited for correctness, Thanks Patt :D*
 

Patt

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Jan 30, 2000
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Originally posted by: Cogman
Don't listen to those guys. System Idling is really a codeword for a harmful computer virus. Basicly, it causes your computer to slowly emmit harmfull thermal radiation while taxing your system to pieces. There are only a few ways to combat this,

1. Turn off you computer and never us it again.
2. Subscribe to folding@home.
3. find any 'ole bios rom and flash your motherboard with it.
4. Delete the boot.ini file (I believe it is in your systems folder).
5. install Linux
6. install Dos
7. install Crysis
8. Get a .22 and shoot the computer at about the middle That should fix it.

Hopefully, that will solve your problem, if not, let me know (But for goodness sake, don't email me, it will only make the virus worse)

You can write to me at

Santa S. Clause
P.O. Box 321
Northpole, USA 83773

Hope that helped.

You forgot that your address is in Canada, and that a 30-30 for step 8 would be more efficient :)
 

Cogman

Lifer
Sep 19, 2000
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Originally posted by: Patt

You forgot that your address is in Canada, and that a 30-30 for step 8 would be more efficient :)

Thanks, My computer skills must be slipping. I can't believe I made such basic mistakes.
 

SoulAssassin

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Feb 1, 2001
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Is this an intel cpu? They are lazier than AMD processors, sometimes you have to yell at them so they get off their butt and do something. Your mouse had a microphone in the bottom, trying yelling at it.
 

paulxcook

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Originally posted by: FoBoT
hey, LS21, do you know what pickles are made of? i need some help figuring this out

Easy. Pickle bush.

(I tried and failed to not snicker while typing that)
 

Homerboy

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Originally posted by: paulxcook
Originally posted by: FoBoT
hey, LS21, do you know what pickles are made of? i need some help figuring this out

Easy. Pickle bush.

(I tried and failed to not snicker while typing that)

Pfftt.. everyone knows they grow on a vine. Don't try to confuse him.
 

Linflas

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It is the current day NT version of the old VAX VMS "Null" process.

When Microsoft released the first version of Windows NT in April 1993, the company's marketing and public relations campaign heavily emphasized the NT (i.e., New Technology) in the operating system's (OS's) name. Microsoft promoted NT as a cutting-edge OS that included all the features users expected in an OS for workstations and small to midsized servers. Although NT was a new OS in 1993, with a new API (i.e., Win32) and new user and systems-management tools, the roots of NT's core architecture and implementation extend back to the mid-1970s.

And now...the rest of the story: I'll take you on a short tour of NT's lineage, which leads back to Digital and its VMS OS. Most of NT's lead developers, including VMS's chief architect, came from Digital, and their background heavily influenced NT's development. After I talk about NT's roots, I'll discuss the more-than-coincidental similarities between NT and VMS, and how Digital reacted to NT's release. . . .