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When using some Windowsblinds themes like Windows 98 Classic, this happens to my CPU, whats going on? This only happens when I use some styles.
Its quite odd, I can still play games like Minecraft with Motion Blur and other stuff like shaders, but CPU usage on task manager looks like 100%.
Are you perhaps running something else that might use lots of cpu and gpu in explorer? I ask as your taskmanager shot shows high gpu usage too.
Its just that it seems to rocket up to 100% when I turn on some themes.
Please post the name of those themes that you see having 100% CPU issue on your system.
Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant
Not happening on my system. Are you running other programs/apps to customize your PC or do you have UXTheme Patcher installed?
I do have UXThemePatcher but I don't use it. I will uninstall it and turn the windowsblinds theme on and off to see if it gets better.
UPDATE: Uninstalled UX Theme Patcher but I am still having this issue.
One other easy thing you could try, is to open a command prompt as administrator and type
sfc /scannow and hit enter. This will take a few minutes to finish and a restart is required.
It found corrupt files, fixed them and I rebooted but sadly the cpu usage problems remain.
Are your sure no other programs running in task manager
with high CPU at the same time .
Scrolling from top to bottom ?
Well, I don't have the issue, but I never use UXTheme Patcher, so I am not sure what is happening on your system. I have read somewhere in this forum, that, once the patch was done, the best thing to get back is a Windows fresh install.
Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant
Not sure if I am on track but maybe registry entries. When you uninstall some programs it does not remove everything. residuals in registry can make big difference in performance. just a suggestion.
UX Theme Patcher does not intervening Windowblinds' engine painting. Something must has spiked your CPU than Windowblinds.
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