System Monitor Shows 100 Percent for Kernel Processor Usage Item

If you use System Monitor to monitor more than one occurrence of "Kernel: Processor Usage," the second and following occurrences of "Kernel: Processor Usage" show 100 percent processor usage.

As a workaround to this behavior, use only one occurrence of "Kernel: Processor Usage" in System Monitor, or use two separate occurrences of System Monitor.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.