Task manager shows constant 30% CPU usage

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The Task Manager doesn’t show all the details that can be useful in figuring out what is going on. I would try Process Explorer.

Tip for Windows server people: Use Process Explorer and PowerShell to see what PMS is up to

Once Sonic Analysis dropped and I started to play with it, I started to pay closer attention to what PMS was doing… because SA wasn’t working as I expected! But in the Task Manager process names like Plex Transcoder.exe don’t tell you much, and they can lead you to bad assumptions. There is a pretty great free tool available from Microsoft that is like a souped up Task Manager, and it can tell you more about what those processes are doing. It’s Process Explorer. The nice thing about Process Ex…