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Re: Desktop performance problem



On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Whit Hansell <skipper44@comcast.net> wrote:
> may or may not help but I've done the following.   Put a process metersystem
> monitor in the taskbar and when it shows something working in the
> background, as in, a program did not quit(some online video stuff does this
> among other items), I can tell something is still hogging cpu time and then
> go to top to kill the process using cli.  This happened just the other day.
>  Some video I had watched online left something going on even when I closed
> the browser so I saw that the system monitor was active at about 25% and I
> had no programs open, went to top and killed one of the video players that
> was using all the current cpu usage.  Then went back to work.  It happens.
>  EZ to fix.  HTH
>
Thanks for the help. There are no hung background processes though.


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