Panta said:
he SERVICES.EXE on a laptop I have is utiliseing around
88 - 100% of the CPU.....
Take a look in Control Panel - Admin tools - Services and *cautiously*
try stopping and restarting services that show as 'Started' to look for
one that is soaking time. If you find one, double click and set the
'Startup type' to Manual - then it can be started up if something really
needs it. And look at the guidance as to what a service does - some are
things you should leave strictly alone
Ones I would look at on a stand alone machine (or probably non-corporate
LAN ) are
Background Intelligent transfer (though it is used by Auto Update,
manual update works fine without)
Routing and remote access
Both of which seem implicated in heavy usage of CPU
SSDP Discovery and
Universal PnP
provided you don't need it for a UPnP router - if you disable one,
disable both
Alerter (which is *not* needed for error alerts on the local machine)
Indexing (unless the use of context in searches is an actual benefit)
IMAPI CD Burning (if third party CD burning is implemented or you don't
burn CDs)
Messenger (against the pop-up ads, though of course NetBIOS should be
blocked in a firewall, this is better than nothing - and is doing no
good in the sort of setups mentioned)
QoS RSVP (not that it causes the trouble that street wisdom suggests -
but it doesn't do anything positive)
Anything else that is Started is probably needed
