Crap. You're right. I just checked and I have the same problem. heh.. Hey, remember that video a few years back that showed someone hitting Gates right in the face with a pie. Makes me feel warm all over.

Back to the Task Manager issue...I just noticed that if I double-click on the CPU usage graph it displays a larger window with the graphs. The strange thing is this action seems to reset the graph to the current system info...

I did get Process Explorer and you are right, it is an excellent program. And it seems to show everything is as it should be. I am just curious about why task manager is misbehaving in this way and slightly concerned that this might be an indication of other problems. Btw it's an Intel Core 2 Duo processor......

I just found this thread thru Google and have the same problem(?) you describe. In a nutshell, it seems the task manager is unresponsive to actual system usage. I have installed another processor usage program and it confirms my system is running properly. Did anyone come up with any ideas about this?...