Windows 7 has High CPU Usage and slow performance

Explorer.exe has a number of other processes associated with it.

It's most likely a sub-process or application that's running in the

background and taking all the CPU resources, which could be

the cause of your PC running slow.

To find and display what could be the problem try Process Explorer:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

SysInternals Forums: http://forum.sysinternals.com/

Worth Reading: The Case of the System Process CPU Spikes

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/04/07/3031251.aspx

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:

In the taskbar select View and check:

'Show Process Tree' and the 'Show Lower Pane' options.

Move your mouse cursor over any column in the right hand pane

and right click and check the following boxes:

'Command Line' and 'Version'.

Next expand the process named 'Explorer.exe' (click on the + sign)

In the column on the left named 'CPU', look for any high CPU usage.

Next click on the CPU column to sort the processes by %CPU usage

(Highest to Lowest).

Now move the mouse cursor over any process, you should see a popup

with some detailed info.

With the mouse over the process that's using most or all the CPU %.

click on that process to highlight it, Now that  it's highlighted,

right click and from the options listed select: 'Search Online'

This should display what out there on the web about that process.

You can also double click on any process to open up a more detailed

'Properties' window.

Note: some entries like Explorer, System/Services, and

Svchost entries may need to be expanded to show the detail (sub processes),

in this case click on the + located to the left of the entry.

An alternate method using Process Explorer is to double click on the

Graph located just below the Menu bar.

This will open the 'System Information' window, which has a larger display

of all three graphs.

Move your mouse over any spike in the CPU Usage graph to see what

process/application or service was the cause of the spike.

You can also Double click on Explorer.exe and in the popup window

select the 'Threads' tab, does any TID (thread id) have a high

CPU percentage (displayed to the right of the TID #)?

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Thanks everyone for the info. I did download and run the Process Explorer and I will keep this for future use. However I think some of you miss understood my intentions; I posted here merely as information to others and to Microsoft that there are Problems with running Gadgets and the process “SideBar.exe”. I’ve had problems on my Home PC with running Gadgets where the Gadgets would eat up 20 to 30% CPU cycles at times. But on THIS PC (my Work PC) when I had Gadgets Loaded, the Process “SideBar.exe” would show usage of 5% to 10%. But the Process “SYSTEM” would show usage of 50% to 70% all the time which was totally confusing. After closing all Gadgets from my Desktop which then would also close the “SideBar.exe” process, I NOW have the “SYSTEM” process show usage of 0% to 2% except when I would have something running as normal. So my real question would be why would a Gadget ever need that much CPU time from the “SYSTEM” process? Anyway as much as I like using desktop Gadgets, until Microsoft can do something about this Monster Called Gadgets eating up CPU cycles, I’ve stopped using Gadgets. Therefore my Problem is solved. Again, Thank you for all your info and I hope that this might help someone else.