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I got a new laptop recently MSI GT62VR with a GTX1070. I had been having some trouble with it when I first got it regarding high cpu usage at idle, so I decided to do a fresh clean install of Windows 10. Now here still rests the problem sometimes with I boot cpu usage at idle seems normal 0-3% usage. But often I get the task in task manager called System using 17% or more of my cpu. I've tried turning off background apps notifications and other security and Windows tweaks with no solution. I even left the laptop on all night one night to see if it would idle down after a night and the high cpu usage at idle still pops up randomly it seems. Like for example today I turned my laptop on for the first timw and about 15-20 minutes later had it happen, then I restarted and it was back down. Also noticed wheb it system cpu usage spiked high on me today i was in a game (World of Warcraft) and it tabbed me out when it happened. Anyone know why it could be doing this? Ran virus scans and malware scans no detections. 

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how long does it sit there at ~17%?

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Usually on fresh installs of Windows and out of the box installs, Windows has a lot of background tasks that it will perform such as updating, indexing, etc. 

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1 minute ago, mikat said:

windows update perhaps?

I changed the active hrs to be within good times.

 

23 minutes ago, knightslugger said:

how long does it sit there at ~17%?

I've never seen it go down lower than that unless I trigger it to with an update.

 

3 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Usually on fresh installs of Windows and out of the box installs, Windows has a lot of background tasks that it will perform such as updating, indexing, etc. 

I left it on overnight one night but the cpu was running normal at that time. But it still will spike always the system process. How long does indenting ect usually take? This is a fresh install of Windows 10 Anniversary. 

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1 minute ago, Bion1985 said:

I changed the active hrs to be within good times.

 

I've never seen it go down lower than that unless I trigger it to with an update.

 

I left it on overnight one night but the cpu was running normal at that time. But it still will spike always the system process. How long does indenting ect usually take? This is a fresh install of Windows 10 Anniversary. 

I noticed that it will behave this way for quite a few days. Usually by a couple weeks it is fine.

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4 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

I noticed that it will behave this way for quite a few days. Usually by a couple weeks it is fine.

So when it runs high should I just leave it on and try letting it do it's thing? I believe that the usage is causing performance issues in some of my games when it triggers.

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2 minutes ago, Bion1985 said:

So when it runs high should I just leave it on and try letting it do it's thing? I believe that the usage is causing performance issues in some of my games when it triggers.

I guess, I never really had any issues when it would the tasks.

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Just now, Bion1985 said:

Would it cause any issues if I tried to disable windows indexing?

Indexing scans your libraries so that Windows know exactly where on your hard drive the files in your libraries are. It's supposed to help with fast searches and load times of files from there. Since your main drive is an SSD, indexing might be already off since indexing an SSD is technically impossible.

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4 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Indexing scans your libraries so that Windows know exactly where on your hard drive the files in your libraries are. It's supposed to help with fast searches and load times of files from there. Since your main drive is an SSD, indexing might be already off since indexing an SSD is technically impossible.

I'll have to double check but I think it's on. I know I saw the windows search service listed in services and I think it was on.

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Could also be Windows aggressive superfetching. (Disable Superfetch in Services and reboot)

Win10 also has its own set of leaks and problems... Windows 10 still feels like a "Beta" product on many systems.

Disabling Superfetch on many Win10 systems has alleviated some issues with resource hungry hogging.

(If this does not fix your issues, you can simply reverse the process and re-enable it.

 

Superfetch is a Windows 10 system service, which makes sure that the most accessed data is available right from the RAM.

However, if you disable the service, you can notice a decrease in CPU usage.

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