Windows 7 and its System process hogging up the CPU

Posted January 14th, 2010 by Wesley

If you’re running Windows 7 and find that from time to time, you PC slows down for 5-10 seconds, try to monitor the System process (NT Kernel & System, or ntoskrnl.exe): chances are that this process is hogging the CPU.  If it is, take a look at your network adapter(s) properties and check if LMHOSTS [...]

Tags: cpu, kernel, lmhosts, performance, system, windows 7