System Idle Process??

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My computer seems to be stuttering. It effects all programs. The task
Manager shows my CPU usage constantly flucuating between 4% and
100%,. The line item is "System Idle Prosess" A reboot seems to clear
the problem but only for a short time.

What can the matter be?



Thanks
 
Jack said:
My computer seems to be stuttering. It effects all programs. The task
Manager shows my CPU usage constantly flucuating between 4% and
100%,. The line item is "System Idle Prosess" A reboot seems to clear
the problem but only for a short time.

What can the matter be?
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You haven't provided any sort of pertinent information to help anyone
determine what your problem might be.

Break out a dictionary and look up the word "idle," sometime. ;-}
The "System Idle Process" metric is the amount/percentage of time that
your CPU has nothing to do. A reading of 98-99% is generally
considered a good thing, and readings above 90% are normal. Think of
it like a car's engine idling in your driveway before you place the
car in gear.

There must be something else bogging your system down.

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Bruce said:
You haven't provided any sort of pertinent information to help anyone
determine what your problem might be.

Break out a dictionary and look up the word "idle," sometime. ;-}
The "System Idle Process" metric is the amount/percentage of time that
your CPU has nothing to do. A reading of 98-99% is generally
considered a good thing, and readings above 90% are normal. Think of
it like a car's engine idling in your driveway before you place the
car in gear.

There must be something else bogging your system down.
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No, actually, his description sounded valid to me and would logically seem
to be "stuttering" as described. While your description is OK, I don't
think it addresses what he said.

Pop`
 
Jack said:
My computer seems to be stuttering. It effects all programs. The task
Manager shows my CPU usage constantly flucuating between 4% and
100%,. The line item is "System Idle Prosess" A reboot seems to clear
the problem but only for a short time.

What can the matter be?



Thanks
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Actually, it sounds like you have malware and maybe even a zomby problem.

With Task Manager:
Click to View the Processes tab
Click the CPU column header once.
Then, Click it again.
Now, the highest cpu numbers should appear at the top of the cpu column.
What is the name of the program that is getting the highest numbers (not
counting System Idle Process)?
If by chance it keep changing too fast to get a look at it, click the row
with the high numbers in it to hightlight it; that'll make it easier to spot
on the screen. One of those processes should show a high number and there
will probaly be a few others showing lower numbers, in the single digit
range.

Come back here and post the results if you can't tell anything from what's
taking up the time, and explain what you have found.

HTH
Pop`
 
Pop` said:
No, actually, his description sounded valid to me and would logically seem
to be "stuttering" as described. While your description is OK, I don't
think it addresses what he said.

Pop`
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"Stuttering" is a speech impediment, and is awfully vague when applied
to technical issues, unless one is trying to describe an audio problem.


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Many thanks for your useful reply. For unrelated reasons, I have
recently rebooted my computer and I have not had a re-occurance of
the problem. (Yet) When it happens I shall try as you suggest and
reply here.

Thanks again
 
The stuttering is back. When the Sysrem Idle drops to 4% the

--------------------------services.exe----------------------

shoots as high as 77%......but only for a second and then drops back
to 0.

Any idea on what services.exe is? and what I can do about it?


Thanks Again
 
Jack said:
The stuttering is back. When the Sysrem Idle drops to 4% the

--------------------------services.exe----------------------

shoots as high as 77%......but only for a second and then drops back
to 0.

Any idea on what services.exe is? and what I can do about it?


Thanks Again
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Anyone know if that could be Indexing doing its checks and updates?

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Any service is set to Automatic, Disabled or Manual in Services.msc. There
is a corresponding registry key for each service with those settings. At
startup, Svchost.exe checks the services portion of the registry to
construct a list of services that it needs to load. The Services Control
Manager (services.exe) is responsible for starting, stopping and interacting
with system services.

A description of Svchost.exe in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056

services.exe can also be a trojan.

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Thanks for your help.

If it is a Trojan.........what should I do?

I have AVG (Free) and it runs everyday. Today it detected the
following:

IRC\BackDoor Flood

2 events

! in C\:Windows\system32\dxdll\engine.ini
and
! in C\:Windows\system32\dxdll\operator.ini

It says it healed this virus, but I vaguely remember getting this
before.

Do you think this might be my problem?

I have never used IRC but I do a lot of Bit Torrenting!

Thanks again.
 
Jack,

engine.ini and operator.ini need to be deleted! They are part of a trojan
not part of Windows.

If they are in AVG's virus vault, delete them from there.

Start | Run | Type: C:\$VAULT$.AVG | Click OK

Anything in C:\$VAULT$.AVG can probably be deleted.

Or you can...
Double click the AVG icon by your clock.
Right click on Virus Vault in the AVG Control Center that pops up and select
Open.
Click on Action on the top toolbar and select Empty Vault.
Or select whatever file(s), click on Action and select Delete File(s), if
you do not want to delete everything in the vault.

I can find references on the web to C:\WINDOWS\system32\dxdll\svchost.exe

And a registry run reference for it.
win.ini: run=C:\WINDOWS\system32\dxdll\svchost.exe

The real svchost.exe is in C:\WINDOWS\system32 not C:\WINDOWS\system32\dxdll

Anything in the dxdll folder would be suspect as would be the whole dxdll
folder.

I do not have a dxdll folder. I suspect that the whole folder has been
added by a trojan.

What else is in C:\WINDOWS\system32\dxdll?

Start | Run | Type: system32 | Click OK |
Then double click on dxdll to open it

I would suggest that you delete the whole dxdll folder, but we should see
what's in it.

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