Machine has suddenly slowed to a crawl

[Dave Logan]

I'm running XP Pro SP2. I have Spybot S&D v1.4, Spyware Blaster v1.3, and
McAfee VirusScan v10, all up to date. I have defragged my hard disk and run
Chkdsk within the last week.

Yesterday, all of a sudden, my machine slowed to a crawl, to the extent that
when I'm typing, the screen can't update as quickly as I can type and I have
to frequently have to stop typing in order to give the display time to catch
up! My CPU usage now hovers around 100% most of the time (it used to be
around 20-30% most of the time). If I look in Task Manager it says that the
process that are hogging most of my CPU are "System Idle Process",
"taskmgr.exe" iexplore.exe (if I have Internet Explorer open), and
explorer.exe (if I have Windows Explorer open), in roughly that order
although the order changes every second.

Any ideas?

Dave

 

[Poprivet]

I'm running XP Pro SP2. I have Spybot S&D v1.4, Spyware Blaster v1.3,
and McAfee VirusScan v10, all up to date. I have defragged my hard
disk and run Chkdsk within the last week.

Yesterday, all of a sudden, my machine slowed to a crawl, to the
extent that when I'm typing, the screen can't update as quickly as I
can type and I have to frequently have to stop typing in order to
give the display time to catch up! My CPU usage now hovers around
100% most of the time (it used to be around 20-30% most of the time).
If I look in Task Manager it says that the process that are hogging
most of my CPU are "System Idle Process", "taskmgr.exe" iexplore.exe

The System Idle Process is just that; the % time the processor is idle, or
has nothing to do. For that reason, total cpu usage always totals 100%
because it includes idle time. It has never shown less than 100% in Task
Manager.

Get offline and then try disabling McAfee and see if that helps. Did you do
a full uninstall of NOrton?
What and how many programs do you see the typing delay in?

Pop`

 

[Dave Logan]

Hi Poprivet

|
| The System Idle Process is just that; the % time the processor is idle, or
| has nothing to do. For that reason, total cpu usage always totals 100%
| because it includes idle time. It has never shown less than 100% in Task
| Manager.

It does on my machine. Until yesterday it usually showed between 20-30%
except when I was running a processor-intensive task. Even today it has been
showing as low as 20% at times, but most of the time today it has been
showing between 90-100%.

| Get offline and then try disabling McAfee and see if that helps. Did you
do
| a full uninstall of NOrton?

Disabling McAfee doesn't help and I don't have Norton.

| What and how many programs do you see the typing delay in?

All applications that I type in, which are mostly Outlook Express, Notepad,
WordPad, Word, Outlook, Excel.

Dave

 

[Dave Logan]

Also, a few minutes ago someone suggested updating my USB drivers, which
I've done, and since then my machine's performance hasn't changed but one
thing that *has* changed is that the biggest CPU hogger is now something
called svchost.exe.

Dave



| Hi Poprivet
|
| ||
|| The System Idle Process is just that; the % time the processor is idle,
or
|| has nothing to do. For that reason, total cpu usage always totals 100%
|| because it includes idle time. It has never shown less than 100% in Task
|| Manager.
|
| It does on my machine. Until yesterday it usually showed between 20-30%
| except when I was running a processor-intensive task. Even today it has
been
| showing as low as 20% at times, but most of the time today it has been
| showing between 90-100%.
|
|| Get offline and then try disabling McAfee and see if that helps. Did you
| do
|| a full uninstall of NOrton?
|
| Disabling McAfee doesn't help and I don't have Norton.
|
|| What and how many programs do you see the typing delay in?
|
| All applications that I type in, which are mostly Outlook Express,
Notepad,
| WordPad, Word, Outlook, Excel.
|
| Dave
|
|

 

[You Know Who ~]

see http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/svchost/

 

[Dave Logan]

Hi You Know Who

| see
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/svchost/

That site is run by Uniblue as an attempt to sell SpyEraser, their malware
that poses as anti-spyware - see http://tinyurl.com/2apb22.

My problem, however, was due to a hijacker - see: http://tinyurl.com/2l7hbq.

Dave

 

[crazyal]

hi,
i used to have that problem with svchost.exe, i disabled automatic
updates and it fixed the problem
now my cpu usage is 0% when idle,
so give it a try and report back,