Windows XP stutters - system cpu utilization pulses

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My Windows XP Pro SP2 recently has developed an annoying habit of causing
everything to pause for a second,then resumes normal behaviour. For instance
if I drag the cursor across the screen, it stops, then resumes it's travel,
repeating in rhythmic timing. I looked at the Processes tab of the Windows
Task Manager and see that the System process jumps from 0-10% all the way up
to 40%+ and then drops back down in an almost heartbeat fashion. Any
suggestions on how to diagnose or fix this would be appreciated.

Michael
 
You need to find the specific process in that application that's taking all
the CPU resources.

To do this try Process Explorer:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
Click on the process that using most or all the CPU %, once it highlighted,
right click
and from the options listed select: google
This should display what out there on the web about that process.

JS
 
JS

I see System jump to 44% then "services.exe" jumps to 15% and within that
group I see 2 or 3 items jump to 1% or 2%. Nothing stands out definitively.

Thanks
 
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