So I tried some more tweaking...in services.
I turned off things that were not stopped by MSconfig that Microsoft remote viewer used to stop them auto updates.
After he did that , and since last nights testing....spiking still occurring.
I ran End Task to see what was running in the background...as most folks do, while sonar was running.
svchost had a lot of instances..about or more than 10 ....what is that doing?
Google tool bar updater...(turned off in Msconfig service and startup setting) still running.
Adobe updater,,,(turned off in Msconfig)...still running.
Micosoft told me not to turn anything off in services...ALEX commented in that Microsoft do not fix things they do not have to...and they do not want to go through event viewer errors, as it could take hours, days, and even weeks of hashing out and routing down the bad guy...in and out quickly is the order of Microsoft tech support..Implied By ALEXs towards me...
..which usually ends up to be a win service that is redundant on most home systems causing the issues.
Microsoft telling me not to touch the services...means google and adobe will be on and running their auto updaters in every boot I do.
So I ended that with a tweak...and fax, and asp.net, and some firewall, and defender, and some other things...
and ran sonar x3c...Hay a reduction of cpu spikes...now it only goes up about half the way to red....see?
I will try to take a snap with the windows meter running along side sonar in record mode....it is hard to catch, But I did it before, I can do it again....and the snap will help guide someone to the event viewer instance perhaps...and we can route out some more service culprits...perhaps?
and with both cpu meters running...I think we can say one will be doing more cpu intensive monitoring than the other, and depending on what is being interfered with...one will be showing less cpu usage...which is what the Microsoft tech viewer was gauging to complete the session.
And we can know the time..it happened by looking at the pic....and route that out instead of my setup of power management and or win 7 defaults as asked to leave alone....which we all know cannot be done...if we have to turn off things that cause sleep, and monitor shut off, and drive power cut, and such and so.....RIGHT?...it has to be tweaked....how to tweak services right is dependant on the software and hardware being used...right?...So we should know this in some form of info posted...so some of us can tweak if need be....I say...But it is not posted.