Those Gadgets, aside from being cute and a novelty, are also very useful. And for those who wonder, they're still available for Windows 8 if you go to a website which hosts a program that restores them to your gadgetless Windows 8, along with a better selection of the actual gadgets than Windows 7 ever had as its own factory equipment. Here's the website for those of you wanting your familiar gadgets back. And fear not - they still work like a charm, as usual.
Why this rant? Because: for a few days lately, for some unknown reason, in my Windows 8 Pro, the CPU has been showing a graph that's up and down like a toilet seat or a prostitute's pants on payday - from next-to-nothing all the way up to nearly full scale and back down again, in regular and closely-spaced intervals. And if you've ever observed the actions in your services and processes parts of the system, you know how impossible it is to discover exactly which process is triggering the action under that blanket called "svchost" - and there can be several many of the little buggers.
The Good News: There's a Gadget for that. It's called "Top 5 - Processor" and it shows you the top five users of your CPU's resources in order of magnitude in percentages. You, I hope, can take it from there. And one of the main offenders on that list is "WmiPrvSE.exe", and here's some reading material about it
in case you too are having problems. And my sincere thanks to 8GadgetPack for supplying the program that helped me track this down. Today's "Question Everything" has to be "Why couldn't Mighty Microsoft do this?" and its corollary would naturally be: "What the hell do you think we're paying you for?"
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Above shows my gadgets, including the "Top 5 - Processor" as mentioned. That "Google Mail" one is handy too. It sounds a chime when there's new mail.
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