- Aug 17, 2017
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I need to get my frustration out of my system and hopefully get possible solutions short of re-installing windows.
I have a fairly fresh install of windows 10 (~ 2 months), it was an upgrade from windows 7 pro. Everything was working smoothly until about 1 week ago. Here is the issue, so annoying that I am considering ditching windows.
My system is a HP z420, Xeon E5-1650 V2, 64 GB DDR3 ECC, GTX1050, 240 GB SSD SANDISK, 4 TB HDD.
This is my main computer and I usually never turn it off or let it sleep.
For the past week or so, windows has been behaving in a strange way, if I leave the computer unattended for some time, the CPU usage increases to high usage between 70% and 100%, system appears to have a fairly high CPU load ~15-20% and the rest of the load seems to be distributed among all the other processes ~1-3% each. The computer then becomes very slow and laggy. I does this on and off until I reboot. After rebooting, the computer behaves properly until I leave it idle for a while and the issue starts again. I now have to reboot several times a day.
I have read everything I could find on the internet about high CPU usage in windows 10, but could not find a solution.
I have checks for malware using Malwarebyte (clean)
I have checked for viruses using McAffee (clean)
I have checked all my drivers, everything looks fine.
Cleaned the registry, removed all the programs loaded at start up, switched from Chrome to Edge (just un case Chrome was the culprit), no change.
I honestly do not know what to do next. My other computers have never exhibited such issue (Lenovo P50, XPS 8300 (wife's computer), T5500).
Thank for letting me rant and let me know if you have any idea on how to fix the issue.
I have a fairly fresh install of windows 10 (~ 2 months), it was an upgrade from windows 7 pro. Everything was working smoothly until about 1 week ago. Here is the issue, so annoying that I am considering ditching windows.
My system is a HP z420, Xeon E5-1650 V2, 64 GB DDR3 ECC, GTX1050, 240 GB SSD SANDISK, 4 TB HDD.
This is my main computer and I usually never turn it off or let it sleep.
For the past week or so, windows has been behaving in a strange way, if I leave the computer unattended for some time, the CPU usage increases to high usage between 70% and 100%, system appears to have a fairly high CPU load ~15-20% and the rest of the load seems to be distributed among all the other processes ~1-3% each. The computer then becomes very slow and laggy. I does this on and off until I reboot. After rebooting, the computer behaves properly until I leave it idle for a while and the issue starts again. I now have to reboot several times a day.
I have read everything I could find on the internet about high CPU usage in windows 10, but could not find a solution.
I have checks for malware using Malwarebyte (clean)
I have checked for viruses using McAffee (clean)
I have checked all my drivers, everything looks fine.
Cleaned the registry, removed all the programs loaded at start up, switched from Chrome to Edge (just un case Chrome was the culprit), no change.
I honestly do not know what to do next. My other computers have never exhibited such issue (Lenovo P50, XPS 8300 (wife's computer), T5500).
Thank for letting me rant and let me know if you have any idea on how to fix the issue.