Performance issue: pc "hesitates"

  • Thread starter Thread starter Tom Richards
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Tom Richards said:
My pc is hanging on by a thread. In Task Manager I finally discovered that
something is driving my cpu to 100% most of the time. I can barely type
this text. EG, Start | All Programs | select a directory or program group
and the menu that extends to the right or left is invisible....graphics
gone....nothing else in taskmgr is running high .... just the system idle
process......sapping all resources and sending the cpu to 90 to 100%...in
the past I've had issues on other pcs like this but there has always been
a process I could shut down....I played around in safe mode to no
avail...tried system restore...no go...could this be a trojan? Something
norton missed? I've:

1) Uninstalled norton av
2) removed all dell crap
3) startup tab in msconfig is clean
4) checked cd/dvd drive cables

And now I have a pc that struggles to compose an email

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Tom Richards
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Spyware or a trojan comes to mind. Try downloading webroot spysweeper. The
AV packages don't detect these nasties yet.
 

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