Lazy PC!

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For some reason without warning my pc has decided to only work with one
program at a time. If i open a program after i have one open previously some
form of conflict occurs. Best described by trying to listen to music while
working. It sounds exactly like in the old days when a record jumped a groove
or got stuck, missing notes and generally annoying. Speed is affected when
running two programs. Nothing else seems wrong. No warnings in the "Events
Viewer". Am running XP Home.
Any suggestions gratefully recieved.
 
Hi Jules:

Open Task Manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL) to the Processes tab and park it in a
corner of your monitor. Display the processes in order of decreasing CPU
usage.

Next time you experience this problem, look at Task Manager and see what
processes are using most of the CPU's time.

Sounds like something other than the programs you have open is using the
CPU. Could be completely normal (and you need more RAM) or it could be
something malicious.
 
Hi Leonard,
Did as you suggested and what a suprise, with no programs running Task
Manager had 38 processes open and lots of activity. My second pc in
comparisin had 36 processes open but nearly no activity! Ran a virus scan
which took 3hrs. 32min. instead of the usual 35 mins. but nothing found.
Except for 1261 lines which could not be scanned as they were protected,
C:\Recycler\NProtect Ran Defender, also clean.
Obviously something is using the pc but what?
RAM has never been a problem before and as the machine has behaved well
until now it must be imho some alien force at play.....
Jules.
 
Jules:

The number of processes by itself really is meaningless. What matters is
what those processes are doing. What I asked you to do was to see which
2 or 3 processes are occupying most of the CPU's time when you
experience slow performance.

With that information you can search the internet to see what those
processes do. (You usually can't tell by the name alone.) If those
processes belong to programs you installed, then its those programs that
are slowing your computer. If the processes are /not/ part of programs
you installed or, worse, if there's little or no information available,
it's almost certain that your computer is infected with malware.
 
Leonard,
The processes most active are,
SVChost.exe
explorer.exe
msnmsgr.exe
aawservice.exe
Can you tell me where i should look to find out what these are?
I can start both pc´s and check both Task Managers, on one pc absolutely
nothing is happening but the other is working away like crazy! I have run
Virus scan, Malware and everything else i can think of but am just lost for
an answer. No changes have been made on the problem pc for months and it has
run faultlessly for ages.
Jules.
 
"With that information you can search the internet to see what those
processes do."
 
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