kazaa.exe hogging processor time

[Jan Plett]

I uninstalled the file-sharing program Kazaa which I had
tried for a month or so, but then, needing it again, when
I installed it a second time it worked (albeit very
slowly) but totally hogged the processor, so that
nothing else could get a look in and it could take a
minute to even get a response from a mouse click.

Although the problem seemed much to radical for such
tinkering, I adjusted the WinXP settings that
give priority to background tasks, but of course it made no difference at all.

I seem to remember I've had such problems before with other programs running on NT;
could there be a registry setting somewhere that's
allowing this to happen? Or is there likely to be
something wrong with my install of Kazaa? - it's kazaa.exe
that's hogging the processor, not the associated P2P and
spyware that goes with it.

 

[Chris Lanier]

Greetings --

You might try a SpyWare Scan to see if that will fix it, please run SpyBot

SpyBot
http://www.safer-networking.org/

I uninstalled the file-sharing program Kazaa which I had
tried for a month or so, but then, needing it again, when
I installed it a second time it worked (albeit very
slowly) but totally hogged the processor, so that
nothing else could get a look in and it could take a
minute to even get a response from a mouse click.

Although the problem seemed much to radical for such
tinkering, I adjusted the WinXP settings that
give priority to background tasks, but of course it made no difference at
all.

I seem to remember I've had such problems before with other programs running
on NT;
could there be a registry setting somewhere that's
allowing this to happen? Or is there likely to be
something wrong with my install of Kazaa? - it's kazaa.exe
that's hogging the processor, not the associated P2P and
spyware that goes with it.

 

[Jan Plett]

I ran spybot, but didn't let it uninstall the spyware
which Sharman Networks require you to have to permit use
of the free version of Kazaa. But I can see that the
spybot process in Task Manager is consuming almost no
processor time, it's only Kazaa.exe that's taking 100%.

Many thanks for your suggestion, but I guess I need help from someone who's found the same problem and fixed it.

 

[jeffrey]

Then try kazaa lite

-----Original Message-----
I ran spybot, but didn't let it uninstall the spyware
which Sharman Networks require you to have to permit use
of the free version of Kazaa. But I can see that the
spybot process in Task Manager is consuming almost no
processor time, it's only Kazaa.exe that's taking 100%.

Many thanks for your suggestion, but I guess I need help

from someone who's found the same problem and fixed it.

 

[Trish]

the only part/spyware that kazaa needs is the Clint.dll.....keep it and
remove the rest.
I uninstalled the file-sharing program Kazaa which I had
tried for a month or so, but then, needing it again, when
I installed it a second time it worked (albeit very
slowly) but totally hogged the processor, so that
nothing else could get a look in and it could take a
minute to even get a response from a mouse click.

Although the problem seemed much to radical for such
tinkering, I adjusted the WinXP settings that
give priority to background tasks, but of course it made no difference at
all.

I seem to remember I've had such problems before with other programs running
on NT;
could there be a registry setting somewhere that's
allowing this to happen? Or is there likely to be
something wrong with my install of Kazaa? - it's kazaa.exe
that's hogging the processor, not the associated P2P and
spyware that goes with it.