Freezing and 100% Usage

[SCHOF]

My Windows XP freezes and the Windows Task Manager shows 100% Usage (Thus
the Freezing). I only am using Internet Explorer at the time? Is there any
reason for this? And how can I repair this?
Thanks

 

[Andre Da Costa]

Are you running an antivirus program such as Norton in background? Also,
click start > run > type in: msconfig > go to startup tab, uncheck any
unncessary programs that might be starting up with system and running in the
background.

Also empty your temporary internet folder and temp folder.

Run a scan with one of the following:
Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://forum.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
Spy Sweeper - www.webroot.com

Andre

 

[Alex Nichol]

My Windows XP freezes and the Windows Task Manager shows 100% Usage (Thus
the Freezing). I only am using Internet Explorer at the time? Is there any
reason for this? And how can I repair this?

In Task Manager, what process shows as using the CPU? (other than system
idle - the task run when there is nothing whatever to do)

 

[Paul Heslop]

My Windows XP freezes and the Windows Task Manager shows 100% Usage (Thus
the Freezing). I only am using Internet Explorer at the time? Is there any
reason for this? And how can I repair this?
Thanks

As Alex points out, when this is happening if you open task manager
(ctrl alt del together) and look on the processes tab there are a list
of running processes and if you look under cpu you'll find the one
running high (except system idle, which is the one that should be
high) , then it's a matter of deciding if you can repair. You may need
to consider things you've installed previously... did you install
something just before this started happening?