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Why is my windows slow at startup?

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Mar 15, 2026576 views
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My computer has a weird thing going on. When windows starts up I see the System process using 100% of the CPU for about 2-3 minutes and then it subsides. I wonder why this happens. I'm sure my computer is virus and spyware free. And I don't face no other problems once this 2-3 minutes pass by. Any …

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Install Process Explorer, and make sure it runs at startup. It keeps a history of recent processor usage, and tells you which programs were taxing the CPU most at any given time (mouse over the CPU history and a tooltip appears identifying the CPU h…

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