The system idle process is how much time your computer is twiddling it's thumbs, it's good to see big numbers there if you're not running anything.9-3 said:Somthing on my PC is using up all my cpu time, i'm using win 2k so when i do ctrl alt delete and go to the task manager i see that "system idle processes" is using up between 90 and 99 % of my CPU.