CPU Usage

[Dan]

My CPU usage jumps to 100% with just one program open. Have run virus check
with Panada AntiVirus, spyware check with CounterSpy, AdAware SE, SpyBot
Search and Destroy, Spyware Blaster & CWShredder.
Defraged using Disk Keeper but still have problem.
Running
P4, 1.6g. 512ram, Ati Radeon Pro 128 mb graphic and Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Gamers sound card, 3 hard drives with over 200 mb of empty space and WinXp
Home,
..Can't even add any new programs because resources in task manager jump to
100% and everything freezes.
Any suggestion would be helpful!! Do I need more Ram?

 

[Ron Chamberlin]

Hi Dan,
Start with ALT-CTRL-DEL and check processes tab. See what you've got running
amok in there.

Ron Chamberlin
MS-MVP

 

[Glen]

Do ctrl alt del to open Task Manager. Go to process tab and click the cpu
column to line up the running programs by CPU usage. You can then see which
program is using all the cpu cycles. Repost if you need further info.

Glen

 

[S.Sengupta]

Did you run all those tools in safe mode and with latest versions?

see:-
'How to troubleshoot by using the System Configuration utility in
Windows XP'
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310560

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

 

[Guest]

After you open Task Mgr and sort the processes by CPU utilization and find
the culprit(s) eating up your processor-time, click on the process then
rt-click it to bring up the Context Menu.
Look for "Set Priority and just HOVER over that (don't click it or on any of
the choices) and see what the setting is. The vast majority of the time a
process should run at "Normal" priority. If these CPU-hoarding process(es)
are set at anything above that, then you should tells us what they are and
their settings before going too much further.
But if you can identify these processes and know how to go further, by all
means, good luck!

 

[Kelly]

Hi Dan,

Run the Task Manager, go to View/Select Columns, and turn on the following
columns: "I/O Read Bytes" and "I/O Write Bytes." This will give you details
as to which process is accessing the disk.

In the meantime, as I noted you have run some of these programs, but re-run
them now, all of them:

Run Ad-Aware SE, Spybot and HijackThis:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html

Note: Update each program, once installed, before running.

--
All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[Dan]

The process eating up all my CPU resources is MSIEXEC.EXE, it is jumping
around from 23,172k to 76,428k.

 

[Guest]

Kelly couldn't be more on track than the Little-Enginge-that-DID with his
last urging, now that we know the culprit (MSIEXEC.EXE); see these page to
find out why:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314881
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/msiexec/
http://www.auditmypc.com/process/msiexec.asp

I'm sure you can realize the implications...

 

[Kelly]

her..... )

--
All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[LabiaLicker]

her..... )

Bashed out on the keyboard the top-posting idiot. What kkkuntry are you from
that you read from the bottom of a page up, yet write at the top in replies
with one word to a 73 line post... Idiots-And-Lazy-****s-'R'-Us?

 

[Kelly]

Ran out of email addresses or stamps?

Bashed out on the keyboard the top-posting idiot. What kkkuntry are you
from
that you read from the bottom of a page up, yet write at the top in
replies
with one word to a 73 line post... Idiots-And-Lazy-****s-'R'-Us?

 

[Guest]

Sorry, Kelly, HER last urging!
I-do-humbly-apologize-and Hang-my-head-in-shame...|o(
;-)

 

[Kelly]

<LOL> No problem, has been happening for years. Thought the female hand on
my web page would help, but....... <w>

--
Happy Mardi Gras,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com