Hello all!

I have a question regarding dual cores and was wondering if it is normal for them to do the following below:

I have a HP Pavilion xt1320us laptop with dual cores (2.00 Ghz).

It is running on Windows Vista Home Premimum.

I use the Windows Vista Gadgets program with the Multi Meter (Dual Core) v1.25a addon running. Its basically a display on my desktop that shows me the usage of my two cores and memory. It looks like this at the following link:

http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDe [...] 7bd66ca5af

Whenever I open up a program like Microsoft Excel or Office or AVG professional etc, the two core meters would jump up instantly to 80-90% and then drop down a second or two later. Sometimes it even 100%. I was wondering if this was normal with dual cores? I am un-sure of whether to say it effects my performance any because I do not notice and usually it only jumps up instantly for a second... on another note as well when Im using programs the cores would flux up and down 30-50%... which I assume is normal.

Anyway thanks for any help! Happy Holidays!

Yes its normal.

what do you expect them to do? never use half their processing power or something?

As above, it is completely normal.

I assume he doesnt know thats why he is asking. Anyway Happy Holidays everyone!