Task Manager refresh rate making me nutz

[ib80]

Hi,

I have WinXP SP2. I had the terrible idea of changing the refresh rate (rr) of the Task Manager (TM) a few days ago. In the menu, there is High, Normal and Low settings as well as Paused. I don't care for the Paused
If I try the High speed, I get a rr of twice a sec. If I hit the low, it gets down to once every five seconds. If I put the normal setting, the rr gets up to once every two seconds. However, the rr at which it was originally, and the one I found to be the best, is once per second. I read some articles on MS's website. I found myself reading at one place that TM's default rr is once every two seconds and at another that it is once a sec. I lost the links to those two places.

I have two local accounts on my PC. I did not touch the rr of the other account's TM. It is still at 1/sec. I tried on another PC at work, and it does the same thing. It was at 1/sec and now, the "normal" rate is 1/two seconds.

Do you know where in the registery this stuff is defined ? I just want to get the refresh rate of 1/sec back without reinstalling Windows if possible .

Thanks,
ib

[ib80]

Yep, Ctrl-Alt-Del.

Check : View -> Update Speed.

BTW, I am using an account with administrator privileges.

I printed the screen I am talking about. You can find it here in jpeg and here in the png format (much nicer and smaller)

Oh, and if you are wondering what the heck is taking up 15% of the CPU at all times, don't look further than the resources-hungry iTunes .