CPU usage utility?

[Wizard]

Not the task manager. I would like to find a freeware utility that list item by item that is hogging the CPU cycles so I can fine-tune my main computer.. CPU is E5200 (i know old but it's plenty for my needs right now) and 2GB.

Second. What antivirus and malware scanners that utilize least CPU cycles? AVG got too greedy now.

Cheers, Wizard

[Scenic]

Re: CPU usage utility?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/s.../bb896653.aspx
http://www.iarsn.com/taskinfo.html

something like those..?

edit: 2nd one isn't freeware unfortunately but if you like it and you can live with a slightly older version (9.2.0 instead of 9.2.1), shoot me a PM.. *cough*

i also found this
http://lifehacker.com/#!5378494/five...r-alternatives

edit2: as for the antivirus.. i'm using MS Security Essentials. probably not the best, but it's free and it doesn't pop up nag screens all the time like for example AntiVir/Avira.. (buy the full version.. blah blah..)

[brethin]

Re: CPU usage utility?

Nothing wrong with task manager unless you just want to add another process to the list of running apps hogging your system. Microsoft Security Essentials is free and for the free ones is the best IMO.

[yyonline]

Re: CPU usage utility?

MS Security Essentials is free and has been fairly light on resources, in my experience.

Newer Norton (2010+) is good too with resources, but not free. Older Norton was awful.

Process Explorer by MS Sysinternals is good for monitoring process cpu usage, disk usage, etc. If you're on Vista or Win7, make sure to run as admin. It won't prompt you for admin rights, and some options are unavailable in non-admin mode. Process Explorer is leaps and bounds above task manager in that you can actually see what services are running under a particular svchost.exe instance, and narrow down a service that's eating too many resources.

[retiredcaps]

Re: CPU usage utility?

Second. What antivirus and malware scanners that utilize least CPU cycles? AVG got too greedy now.

I'm using Panda cloud on one machine and Immunet cloud on this one. Immunet takes consumes maybe 30KB of memory. Yes, thirty.