REALLY slow Win2K Pro

[Guest]

Does anyone know the likely cause of a Win2K Pro machine
slowing down after running fine for a period of time? A
reboot gets it back to normal, but before too long, the
CPU %age is pegging 100 again. Task Manager shows very
little CPU current usage to the System Idle process when
this happens. Very often it's msmngr32.exe or CSRSS.exe
that is hogging the CPU. Is this some sort of memory leak
that causes the software running to goof each other and
the OS up?

 

[Paul Dietrich]

Does anyone know the likely cause of a Win2K Pro machine slowing down
after running fine for a period of time? A reboot gets it back to normal,
but before too long, the CPU %age is pegging 100 again. Task Manager
shows very little CPU current usage to the System Idle process when this
happens. Very often it's msmngr32.exe or CSRSS.exe that is hogging the
CPU. Is this some sort of memory leak that causes the software running to
goof each other and the OS up?

a) Check for virus
b) consider upgrade to Service Pack 4 (backup important stuff first)

if neither helps, feel free to post again on this thread