High CPU Usage

[Guest]

I just received my Dell E521 Desktop. Since I started it, I have had a
consistent cpu drain ranging from 2% - 60%. The usage bounces around and it
does it when the computer is idle. It bounces between percentages every 2
seconds or so.

It only does this when connected to the internet and via the task manager
apperars to be one of the many scvhost.exe that is causing the drain. I have
tried just about everything, Ie; stopping windows update, checking for
viruses, adware, etc, however I still have the same problem.

Can anyone please help!!!!!!

 

[Dungeon Keeper]

Brian - Could be a service such as Norton ( which is in itself a hogger of
CPU and anything else it gets its hands on) - check your start up services
and programs - as a lot of programs use the scvhost.exe and a lot of these
seperate processses can be seen running if you turn on 'view processes for
all users' there may be a clue there too if you can see the User Name of the
offending process is using.

Dungeon Keeper
http://www.software-dungeon.co.uk

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the suggestion DK, however already tried disabling my antivirus,
actually uninstalled it...Same problem...

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Since you just received your computer it is probably spending CPU time
indexing files on the hard drive and when there is idle time, defrag runs.
I think that is what is happening. Give it a few days and your usage should
normalize.

 

[Guest]

Dk, my bad, I had just turned off Mcafee not uninstalled it. I uninstalled
Mcafee, and the cpu went down to 4%....Wowwww,,,,4 days of researching this
one...Anybody have an antivirus that works with Vista?

 

[Alun Harford]

I just received my Dell E521 Desktop. Since I started it, I have had a
consistent cpu drain ranging from 2% - 60%.

When you're not using the CPU, Windows uses it to index your hard disk.

 

[Steve Easton]

AVG by Grisoft.
www.grisoft.com

 

[Stuart Forshaw]

Dear Brian

I always find it interesting how different people's machines appear to have
different characteristics.

When we have use Norton we find that it is a serious resource hogger,
however since having so many problems with Symantec, we have changed to
Mcafee which from our experiences works fine with little drain on resources,
to give you an idea on this machine we have McAfee internet security suite
running and with just Mcafee and Microsoft apps it is using 6% CPU.

This is not a dig at you it is pure interest as you obviously have
experienced many problems and yet having removed Mcafee your useage is 4%
where ours with the full suite is only 6%

Take care

Regards
Stuart

 

[Bill Yanaire]

I use AVAST. Works great with Vista

Updates more than AVG Free and is rated higher.

 

[Mr. Arnold]

I just received my Dell E521 Desktop. Since I started it, I have had a
consistent cpu drain ranging from 2% - 60%. The usage bounces around and
it
does it when the computer is idle. It bounces between percentages every 2
seconds or so.

It only does this when connected to the internet and via the task manager
apperars to be one of the many scvhost.exe that is causing the drain. I
have
tried just about everything, Ie; stopping windows update, checking for
viruses, adware, etc, however I still have the same problem.

If you want to know what a process is hosting, then you use Process Explorer
to look inside something like svchost.exe and see what processes are running
with it.

You can go to Tools/View/Show Lower Pane/Show Dll(s) and it will show you
everything a process is hosting when you click a process in the upper pane.

You can right-click a process in the upper pane and goto Properties for
more info. You can do the same in the lower pane as well.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/processexplorer.html

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

The link talks about how to use Process Explorer and other tools so you can
go look for yourself.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/klw1

Active Ports doesn't work on Vista, but CurrPorts will work on Vista and
gives the same information.

http://www.bestvistadownloads.com/download-tcp-port-software.html

You may not even have malware running, but you can at least look for
yourself, and PE will show you what's driving up the CPU that a process is
hosting.

 

[Tiberius]

unless you keep on changing files...

and by the way this will be the case more and more since people will all
have very fast broadband
and they will keep downloading and shifting files around.

and by the way... indexing gives a multitude of erroneous results if you
keep shifting files around and deleting them because you write them on dvd
and delete them.

and by the way, the fact that they dumbed down the gui of the defrag is
annoying and stupid

and by the way.. vista is stupid....

and by the way.. sell MS your stocks now, while they are still worth
something.

 

[Tiberius]

avg uses less cpu than avast...

having a hog like vista makes you try to be very carful to not install much
on the computer...
since it bogs it down like an ant carrying a dinousaur corpse.

like the other guy who said dont install acrobat viewer 8 because it will
slow down vista.. lol install foxit...

what a sad story this vista has been... and some are boneheads enough to
think vista is faster than XP.

The result is you using barebone vista... if you can ever call a bloated
fat OS like viista barebone....

Rule of thumb.If you have less than a 4 core with 4 gigs of ram, avoid
vista....
Or in other words install vista only if you have cpu power to spare.
Law of vista: If you like vista you are stupid.

 

[Tiberius]

Norton is a monster.. the only worse software I have ever seen is vista
itself...

but MacAfee is horrid too...

its a shame because these 2 started out as superb programs a long time
ago...

 

[Bill Yanaire]

So if I like Vista then I'm stupid? Well, if you call people stupid who
like Vista then you are a Douche Bag!

 

[Tiberius]

Let me elaborate.

If you just use vista you are not stupid. I too use vista...

But if you *like* vista you are stupid. The more you like vista, the more
stupid you are.

Think of it as a fast IQ test.

I think that clarifies things... test yourself today. Ask yourself how much
you like vista...and count your IQ

I cant live without it = below 20, you are a living vegetable
I think its great, better and faster than XP = 20-80
I like it = 80-100
I don't like it that much=100-120
I don't like it at all = 120-140
Vista is horrid, a monstrosity, a flop= 140 and up

 

[Bill Yanaire]

Flawed!

I could say the following:

If you post messages saying that people who use/like/cherish/sleep
with/etc... Vista then:


Subtract from your I.Q.

1-5 Postings - 10 points
6-15 Postings - 20 points
16-40 Postings - 30 points
41-65 Postings - 45 points
65 + Postings - You then become a registered Microsoft Fanboy (then I.Q.
doesn't matter!)

 

[Tiberius]

would you mind to clarify this>

"If you post messages saying that people who use/like/cherish/sleep
with/etc... Vista then:"

 

[Bill Yanaire]

I don't think it needs clarification. See your IQ is either close to Fanboy
or passed Fanboy!

 

[Tiberius]

Sure it needs clarification because its not English! That is a malformed
sentence!

But I am not a Microsoft fanboy....

I use linux too..

basically I use what works best.. and vista does not work best.

For the things I do XP works best, but I would not have a second thought
about switching to something else
if I could use ported applications that I need.

 

[Tiberius]

hate to tell you this billyanaire

even if I subtract 45 from my IQ, Im still far above average.. lol