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Daniolle
May 18, 2026Iron Contributor
Help with cpu running at 50% all the time
I have a laptop running windows xp sp3 and after it starts up it will run between 50% and 70%. The program doing it is called CSRSS.EXE. I tried to stop it and i can't because windows tell me it can'...
Henrony
May 19, 2026Iron Contributor
The key to solving this is that CSRSS.EXE isn't the problem itself—it's being forced to work overtime by something else on your system . Think of it like a 911 operator; if every call is an emergency, the operator gets very busy, but the operator isn't the cause of the emergencies.