TOO MUCH CPU! VIRUS??? MALWARE???

[Pikey]

Hi,

I always found good help--and stern advice, so I thought I would bring this
by you guys and see what happens.

Now, I'm trying to figure out what happened exactly--if I installed
something or what, but it seems whenever I play a video file or a music file,
it requires a lot of CPU usuage. It always goes to 100%--and it kind of
stays at 100%. Everytime. So when I'm watching a video, the video kinds of
plays slowly, or it doesn't stream well. Hell, I can't even watch youtube,
but it will load fine enough, but won't play clearly as it always has.

I turned off the computer for a night and when I turned it back on--I ran
AdAware, SpyBlaster and my usual virus protection program. A few things
turned up, but minuscule and the problem remains. I also ran my CCleaner. I
haven't run Spybot yet, but I did a Yahoo Anti-Spy.

It seems to play things fine at first, but then the CPU kicks in.

It seems--according to my Task Manager that, the program that playing the
music or video file starts eating up all the ram and then it shares it with
the System Idle Process and the System in using all the ram.

Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? Yes, I will run Spybot
Anti-spy software later today, but I'm sure it won't buy me anything.

What happened???


THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP

 

[Big_Al]

Hi,

I always found good help--and stern advice, so I thought I would bring this
by you guys and see what happens.

Now, I'm trying to figure out what happened exactly--if I installed
something or what, but it seems whenever I play a video file or a music file,
it requires a lot of CPU usuage. It always goes to 100%--and it kind of
stays at 100%. Everytime. So when I'm watching a video, the video kinds of
plays slowly, or it doesn't stream well. Hell, I can't even watch youtube,
but it will load fine enough, but won't play clearly as it always has.

I turned off the computer for a night and when I turned it back on--I ran
AdAware, SpyBlaster and my usual virus protection program. A few things
turned up, but minuscule and the problem remains. I also ran my CCleaner. I
haven't run Spybot yet, but I did a Yahoo Anti-Spy.

It seems to play things fine at first, but then the CPU kicks in.

It seems--according to my Task Manager that, the program that playing the
music or video file starts eating up all the ram and then it shares it with
the System Idle Process and the System in using all the ram.

Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? Yes, I will run Spybot
Anti-spy software later today, but I'm sure it won't buy me anything.

What happened???


THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP

Try autoruns. It will also give you a list of things that start on
boot. You could have something there.

 

[Pikey]

Thank you Big_Al. Thank you very much, indeed.

It seems that everything is fine. Nothing overt is starting when I restart
windows. My system still uses to much Ram when I'm watching a video or
playing a music file.

That being said, I noticed that when I do restart--and this has been going
on for quite some time, before my aforementioned issues, Nwiz. exe also has
an error and needs to close whenever I restart. Apparently Nwiz is aNVIDIA
nView Wizard???? Should I seek to reinstall that? It's hasn't caused my
computer any harm, so I've ignored it for months.

I thought I would reinstall Java--but why I thought that is news to me, so I
won't until further notice.

Thanks again for the recommendation.