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Old 08-24-2011, 06:05 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by sclitheroe View Post
Nah..not true at all. At idle, Windows Vista/7/2008 would should <50% CPU utilization even on a 233 mhz pentium..You can use VMWare to inspect how much CPU an idle Windows box uses, and its literally less than 100 Mhz.
I'm guessing there is some bloatware or something else in his OS that is using up his CPU cycles. I saw this same behavior on a few OEM equipped with Vista notebooks and I could only cure it by wiping and installing 7 or XP.
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