As stated in the question, I am very curious why a seemingly simple thing such as highlighted text requires 1.4 gigahertz of processor power.
Anyone got TSD on this?
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It didn’t seem to have any real effect on my computer. Can you repeat it after a reset. Perhaps you have a memory leak in another program or something running in the backround causing some sort of conflict.
WAG: Nothing else is being done, so it just uses up all the available power. I mean, why not? It’s not taking power away from something else. Try running something else in the background (download a file or something) and see if it changes.
Doesn’t seem to do it on my computer. Hilighting text causes a brief spike in cpu load, but it quickly settles down back to pretty much zero. Maybe it’s a quirk with your graphics card driver?
I’ve noticed this in the past with an old processor I had. I never cared enough to figure this out though, because I assumed it was Windows-related. But I’ve since upgraded processors and Windows and I don’t notice the problem anymore. So what kind of processor are you using, what version of windows, what kind of mouse, etc do you use?
What sort of graphics card do you have? Is hardware acceleration turned on for Windows stuff? A lot of the 2D processing (moving windows, &c.) can be handled by the graphics card in your computer.
WAG it’s reading all the highlighted text into an internal ‘clipboard’ like buffer…
Goes and plays…
No I’m stumped. You don’t even need to select anything. I can keep CPU at 100% just by holding the mouse down on a document. Word must be looping waiting for something to happen and simply hogs all the CPU.
Maybe I can attach a debugger, hum?