100% CPU usage

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Barrie

My cpu always runs at 100% usage. Task Manager shows an application
running in the Windows folder at 99% usage, even from the desktop. The
app. is different each start up and is described by what appears to be
a random series of letters. On search I have sometimes found a mirror
pf. file in the prefetch folder. The app. will share CPU time with
other apps but everything runs slowly. Please, can anybody help solve
this problem?
Running XP Home Ed. with plenty of disk space.
 
Barrie;
Have you run a complete virus scan with the latest updates?

Visit these sites. Download, install, run, update
and run again; one or all. They are all good, FREE utilities.
The first site gives some recommendations.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads.php?cat=all#s-p
1) AdAware
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/
2) Spybot S & D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download
3) SpywareBlaster
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
4) HijackThis (some other stuff that may be of interest also)
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.html
 
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