A
Alastair
After recently installing SP1 and other security updates,
my wife's XP portable started to exhibit odd behaviour.
This was traced to a process (relating to a digital
Camera) that kept hogging the CPU for no good reason.
Subsequent attempts to system restore back to the
previously stable "pre-XP update" state appeared to fail
due to the system hanging during the restore.
Thinking that it would at least clear the problem, I used
the Compaq Recovery CD to restore the system to the
original Factory Settings, installed Norton Anti Virus and
checked the system - no viruses found. I then restored my
wife's files by copying a zipped folder across my home
network (from my desktop PC) and extracted her files and
rechecked for viruses.
Subsequent test usage has indicated that the problem of
CPU hogging remains. As observed, Wkscal.exe is now
taking 100% of the CPU. I am more than a little confused
about the cause.
Notes
1. Broadband internet to a NAT router, the portable
originally had no virus scanner installed so a virus was
the suspected cause (but nothing detected).
2. The runaway problem appears to happen when logged
in as my wife (rather than as myself).
3. My wife downloads many teaching resources off the
internet and thus probably has deeply nested folders
(could too-long file pathnames somehow be a factor?).
my wife's XP portable started to exhibit odd behaviour.
This was traced to a process (relating to a digital
Camera) that kept hogging the CPU for no good reason.
Subsequent attempts to system restore back to the
previously stable "pre-XP update" state appeared to fail
due to the system hanging during the restore.
Thinking that it would at least clear the problem, I used
the Compaq Recovery CD to restore the system to the
original Factory Settings, installed Norton Anti Virus and
checked the system - no viruses found. I then restored my
wife's files by copying a zipped folder across my home
network (from my desktop PC) and extracted her files and
rechecked for viruses.
Subsequent test usage has indicated that the problem of
CPU hogging remains. As observed, Wkscal.exe is now
taking 100% of the CPU. I am more than a little confused
about the cause.
Notes
1. Broadband internet to a NAT router, the portable
originally had no virus scanner installed so a virus was
the suspected cause (but nothing detected).
2. The runaway problem appears to happen when logged
in as my wife (rather than as myself).
3. My wife downloads many teaching resources off the
internet and thus probably has deeply nested folders
(could too-long file pathnames somehow be a factor?).