Machine Frozen

[Bill]

I am sure that this question has been asked a million
times but here goes, I have an XP Pro SP1 box running a
P4 2.6 with 700 Mb RAM - very recently it has slowed down
to a crawl. When I run task manager it says that the CPU
is at 100% utilisation nearly all the time. I am running
anti-virus software, spamkiller and McAfee firewall, all
over a 56K connection. Any advice on how to analyse /
solve this issue. Many thanks in advance,

Bill

 

[Phil]

Could be spyware:
You've got spyware, adware, a trojan, a search engine hijacker, or a home
page hijacker.

Run these tools weekly
Spybot -- http://www.safer-networking.org/
Ad-aware -- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

CWShredder: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html

HiJackThis - http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/

 

[Jon]

Bring up task manager > Processes tab and click the CPU column
Note the name of the process which is consuming the most CPU.
Then work out which application / service it relates to (eg via Google)

Jon

 

[Richard Urban]

Go to the next step in task manager and use the process tab to find out
which process is consuming the CPU cycles.

--
Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard