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System Monitor Shows 100 Percent for Kernel Processor Usage Item

Article ID: 178563

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition

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SYMPTOMS

If you use System Monitor to monitor more than one occurrence of "Kernel: Processor Usage," the second and following occurrences of "Kernel: Processor Usage" show 100 percent processor usage.

RESOLUTION

As a workaround to this behavior, use only one occurrence of "Kernel: Processor Usage" in System Monitor, or use two separate occurrences of System Monitor.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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