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geekyguy
Hi All: I have an XP Pro sp3 desktop with 1 gig RAM and a 30-gig hard drive.
The computer started to run very slowly and I saw that it only had 5% of the
hard disk space available. I deleted a lot of files and ran a defrag on the
drive freeing up ~40% of the space.
After rebooting, and viewing Task Manager, CPU is pegged at 100% with
"system" (user "SYSTEM") taking up all available CPU. It's not bad enough to
prevent other apps from starting/running (they're running slowly, however),
but after 20 minutes "system" is still consuming 96-99% of CPU.
I've googled (and bing'd) around for awhile, but most often the culprit is
print spooler, or indexer, or svchost...but in this case it's the "system"
image itself hogging CPU...is there anything that would cause that to
happen?
McAfee is installed but McShield is only consuming a small portion of CPU.
No other apps seem to be fighting for CPU either.
Any ideas?
The computer started to run very slowly and I saw that it only had 5% of the
hard disk space available. I deleted a lot of files and ran a defrag on the
drive freeing up ~40% of the space.
After rebooting, and viewing Task Manager, CPU is pegged at 100% with
"system" (user "SYSTEM") taking up all available CPU. It's not bad enough to
prevent other apps from starting/running (they're running slowly, however),
but after 20 minutes "system" is still consuming 96-99% of CPU.
I've googled (and bing'd) around for awhile, but most often the culprit is
print spooler, or indexer, or svchost...but in this case it's the "system"
image itself hogging CPU...is there anything that would cause that to
happen?
McAfee is installed but McShield is only consuming a small portion of CPU.
No other apps seem to be fighting for CPU either.
Any ideas?