Windows 7 has High CPU Usage and slow performance

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Hello all,

I've searched the forums, but was unable to find anything relevant. I recently upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista. It was running fine for about a week then all of a sudden everything started running very slow. I checked the the processes tab in task manager and I am constantly running at 70-80% CPU usage. I think this is very high considering the computer is only a few months old. It seems like others are having this problem as well, but no real solutions.

I have turned off file indexing as well as disabled the HD audio device.

Please help!

Here are my hardware specs:

AMD 9550 Quad-Core

64-bit

6GB Ram

Thank you in advance for your help. I am ready to toss this thing from my second story window.

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Anonymous

I think the answer might be the Windows Media Player and Windows Media Network Sharing Services as zxypher suggested. The fix for that is to adjust were the Windows Media Player services search for media files.

It seems to be a bad problem for me as well upgrading from Vista to Windows 7. The default search location for media is set to C:\Users\ instead of down in the My Music folders.

Go into Media Player. From the menu -> File -> Manage libraries -> select each library (music, video, pictures, recorded tv [if you have]) and check the paths that it is managing and make sure it is not too close to the root of the C: drive. For example, it should be something like c:\users\Jim\Music and c:\users\Public\Music BUT NOT **** c:\users as they will cause the whole directory tree to be re-indexed over and over (when you surf the web or change any files in your profile).

If you have multiple users who login to the computer, you may need to repeat the process for each user if all users have added managed folders which are actively changing on a regular basis.

If this is your issue and you do it correctly, then the high CPU should drop in minutes (or seconds down to nothing).

This is the CORRECT way to adjust the WMNSS/WMPNetwk.exe process issues.

A little more information can be found here:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7performance/thread/2fe4901b-2eaf-4a99-b487-e6a6213b10b3/

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Anonymous

2010-04-13T18:13:07+00:00

If you had high CPU usage that was affected by the presence or absence of a secondary monitor, it would seem to be related to some program you had running that would check this, or perhaps the video driver.

Did you track the CPU usage back to a particular process?
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Anonymous

2010-04-16T00:51:35+00:00

Your right something is definitely wrong. I've only had my computer for about 4 months and my CPU runs anywhere from 3% to 6%. You do have high numbers. Wow. I been searching for an hour to find an aswer about the Microsoft Gold Seal. I've learned many things but never found the answer I was Looking for. Years back there wasnt enough info now it's overkill. I never seen so many Microsoft sites. I hope you get your answer quickly. Good Luck!
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Anonymous

2010-04-23T18:51:05+00:00

how full is ur hardrive
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Anonymous

2010-04-24T17:11:27+00:00

open manage libraries under Organize in WMP12. Open each folder and remove every Library Location except what you want to use as your only folder. After doind this for pics, videos, music, and recorded TV (which I just deleted) close WMP. Start Task manager and watch your cpu usage, then start WMP. Most will find this solves the problem. At least it worked for me.....I also stoped the WMP network thing under services.
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