Processes 8% CPU 100% why

In Task Manager in the CPU column, processes
total around 8-9%.

Yet in Performance tab CPU useage shows 100%,
and the HD light is almostly stadily on,when I am
doing nothing.

Why so much cpu useage?
And why isn't the cause shown in Processes
in the CPU column?
There seems to be no associated network activity,
I might assume it's something to do with indexing,
it's not malware scanning, as I've turned these off.
I'd like to know what's going on.

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> In Task Manager in the CPU column, processes
> total around 8-9%.
>
> Yet in Performance tab CPU useage shows 100%,
> and the HD light is almostly stadily on,when I am
> doing nothing.
>
> Why so much cpu useage?
> And why isn't the cause shown in Processes
> in the CPU column?
> There seems to be no associated network activity,
> I might assume it's something to do with indexing,
> it's not malware scanning, as I've turned these off.
> I'd like to know what's going on.


Right click on any disk drive icons to get properties and uncheck "Index
this drive" - see if that stops the light.

Seems some machines are bad, some are not, no idea why.

If you find this slows searching then adjust the parameters in search
but I don't use search much so the time is simply wasted.

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> In Task Manager in the CPU column, processes
> total around 8-9%.
>
> Yet in Performance tab CPU useage shows 100%,
> and the HD light is almostly stadily on,when I am
> doing nothing.
>
> Why so much cpu useage?
> And why isn't the cause shown in Processes
> in the CPU column?
> There seems to be no associated network activity,
> I might assume it's something to do with indexing,
> it's not malware scanning, as I've turned these off.
> I'd like to know what's going on.

I just had that with my system, out of the blue, CPU ran at 100% (only on
one core though) and the drive light came on steady.
The performance monitor showed a networking process as the culprit,
svchost.exe (LocalSystemNetworkRestricted) was maxing out the CPU
I booted into safe mode and turned everything off, and then started to turn
them back on one by one. When I got to TC/IP NetBios Helper it started
again.
I have no idea what happened to make it do this, it was easier for me to
restore an image than hunt down the fix.

Ray Rogers