I always thought programs like that would be useless in 2000 or XP since the OS has the system idle process that is supposed to do the same thing. Well, for my particular motherboard at least (A7M266) ...

If I goto the task manager it says there is a process called "system idle process" and it is always at 95-100% cpu usage. However, if I look at the graph of cpu usage it shows that it is only at like ...

Ever wondered what your CPU does when idle? Turns out it's still processing tasks -- but engineers designed one that takes very little power. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...