Problem upgrading to Vista on Sony Vaio laptop

[its_my_dime]

My laptop came with XP but with a Vista upgrade disk. I finally decided to
do the upgrade and am having real problems.

While the computer is light on processing power and memory (1 gig), it is
supposed to run Vista. However, I find that it has stalled to a crawl
because my processor is always running at 100% while the memory is only in
the 60% range. However, in SAFE MODE, the processor only runs at 20%. So I
assume something is being loaded that is killing the processor. I also
found that, somewhere in the normal bootup process, the processor usage
jumpted from 60% to 100%.

How do I find out what the problem is. Does Vista have diagnostics that
shows how much processor power each process uses? Or is there a way I can
load one file at a time while watching the processor meter to see where it
jumps?

If I can't fix this issue, I'll plan to go back to XP.

Thank you.

 

[its_my_dime]

Hi,

You might have a look under the processes tab in Task Manager and see
if that reveals anything

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/121580-task-manager-open-close-applications-processes.html

Hope it helps

SIW2


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It looks like the problem relates to something called zerocfgsvc
application, an Intel that leads to a file called ZCfgSvc.exe.
I don't know if this is something Vista needs, but I've disabled it and the
CPU usage has dropped from 100% to 20%!!

Thank you.

 

[Mick Murphy]

http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/zcfgsvc.exe.html

A bit of info about that process.