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For some reason, no idea why, whenever i move my mouse my cpu usage shoots up. It's saying that is's the system idle process that is hogging up all the cpu usage. Anyone have an idea why this might be happening?

it's actually the explorer that is hogging the cpu usage when i move the mouse

Hello Quickshot55,

First thing I would check for is spyware, extra Explorer usages is often related to spyware/malware/Trojan activity.

Please download HijackThis http://downloads.malwareremoval.com/hijackthis.zip and save it to your desktop.

To extract HijackThis:

1. Right-click your file HijackThis.zip and from the menu select "Extract All".
2. The Extraction Wizard Window will appear, Click "Next".
3. Click Browse and navigate to "C:\" or the "C:\Program Files" and click "Create A New Folder" and call it "HJT" or "HijackThis" or whatever that is easy to remember and then click OK.
4. Click the Extract button.
5. Close the HijackThis.zip dialogue box.

Now double-click on hijackthis.exe and when the window opens, Press the Scan now and save a logfile button and then when it is done, copy and paste the contents of the notepad it opens as a reply to this post.