This may seem like a newbie question.
I have had a HP PC for a while running an AMD 64 Athlon processor. I picked it up second hand from the business that I run and it has always seemed to me to be too sluggish for the processor speed that it claims, 2.2Ghz. When I pull up the Task Manager and look at Performance it has always shown CPU usage at between 70% and 100% despite everything that I’ve tried to streamline and “de-junk” my system and even when I hve no applications running. I know that there are processes always running in the background and I accepted this as the reason for this constantly high CPU usage.
But I just picked up another PC, a Dell with a Pentium 4, 2.5Ghz processor and when I pull up the Task Manager CPU usage is between 0% and 2% !! And this while I’m attempting to uninstall some software.
Can anyone explain why this is happening and what, if anything, that I might do to improve the performance of the HP PC?
