<![CDATA[CPU peaks on processes]]>I'm still on XP, no serious issues.

Still I spotted a strange behaviour that is hard to explain.
Not often, when I listen to a stream with my foobar (as a rule), the output gets jammed, like "Oh pretty b-b-b-b-ba-yyyyyyyy-bi---".

Well, this time I resorted to my Task Manager.
Tab 1 looked o'k, I switched to see the processes. At first glance they too looked o'k, but then I noticed a couple of them peak up time to time - from 1 to 20+ and more; having a look at the CPU gobble tab, the peaks were multiple and battered the ceiling.
There were no browsers open. A folder, foobar, and a couple of RTFs. Those peaking I noticed were the foobar process and explorer.exe - I didn't scroll further down.
Yes, I have an MSE full scan scheduled on Sunday-Monday, and it usually takes more than 6 hours now (ending like after 9am usually) - but I didn't see MSE running, even opened it to make sure.
What do you think?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/9407/cpu-peaks-on-processesRSS for NodeSun, 12 Apr 2026 09:55:50 GMTMon, 27 Apr 2015 08:58:48 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to CPU peaks on processes on Tue, 28 Apr 2015 04:06:50 GMT]]>Most programs save settings or log files on closing; if some other program depends on accessing the disk this will interrupt it some.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/73103https://forums.opera.com/post/73103Tue, 28 Apr 2015 04:06:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to CPU peaks on processes on Mon, 27 Apr 2015 19:24:31 GMT]]>Thank you for that information, Steve!

What do you think if it happens after closing things? Like a browser, or that MSE, too, maybe?
It's often for a while after closing stuff...

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/73082https://forums.opera.com/post/73082Mon, 27 Apr 2015 19:24:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to CPU peaks on processes on Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:21:50 GMT]]>Explorer includes the desktop itself, if it is not running your desktop has crashed. I don't use Security Essentials and can't comment on that.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/73056https://forums.opera.com/post/73056Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:21:50 GMT