On 1/13/2021 12:09 PM, Alain Martel wrote:
> What can make your CPU time go lower could be thermal throttling. This 
> can happen if there is to much dust in the heat sink of the CPU. It 
> should be cleaned at least once a year, more if you are in a dusty 
> environment.

The PC is virtually brand new and I just peeked inside the case a few 
weeks ago. It is clean.





> 
> Some other possible causes would be another CPU hungry process running, 
> or memory use getting to high and swapping start happening.

The CPU is at about 40% usage (according to Task Manager) for all 
programs currently running.

Memory usage is like 60%.


Mike

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