# iTunes taking a lot of CPU?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/itunes-taking-a-lot-of-cpu/215353>\
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**Created:** [February 6, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/itunes-taking-a-lot-of-cpu/215353 "2007-02-06T17:55:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ohls](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/59ef9b/32.png) [@Ohls](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ohls)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/itunes-taking-a-lot-of-cpu/215353/1 "2007-02-06T17:55:12Z")

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I got my iPod video today(yay!) So I thought I’d start to use iTunes in order to sync my library and stuff. But iTunes takes up about 10-20% CPU=( and spikes at 70-80% CPU every 10 sec or so. It also causes my mouse to lag about 1 time each second. Which is really really annoying.

Anyone know a fix for this?

ps, I’m on a windows XP PC.

edit: Tested some few things and I’ve found that it does not lag nor use any CPU when I leave it completely idle. It’ll start acting up as soon as I play a song, connect the iPod or anything for that matter.