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CPU overload
Name: briankeith Date: December 17, 2005 at 03:20:54 Pacific OS: windowsXP Home Ed. CPU/Ram: Athlon(tm)XP1800+,MMX,3D
Comment:
10 days ago my CPU indicated 100% when accessing some programmes. Reset restarted machine with about 60% usage which quickly locked up at 100%. How can I identify what process or programme may be causing this and can it be corrected
Name: echo75 Date: December 17, 2005 at 03:46:57 Pacific
Reply:
have you tried accessing your task manager and looking which program uses most resources? CTRL-ALT-DEL
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Response Number 2
Name: jam Date: December 17, 2005 at 09:14:55 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like your PC is infected or has spyware loading at startup, possibly both.
Boot into safe mode (tap F5 or F8 key during bootup)...once you're in, go to Start > Run, type in MSCONFIG & click OK...then click the Startup tab & look over the list. If you can, take a screenshot & post it
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Response Number 3
Name: aqua04 Date: December 21, 2005 at 23:11:48 Pacific
Reply:
hi! i too have a cpu 100% usage problem.I was surfing the net when suddenly my laptop shut down.When i tried restarting it ,it seemed to take ages..... and when it finally loaded all the drivers and exe files (antivirus and stuff) i found the CPU usage was 100%.At this time i disconnected the internet connection but the problem persisted.Theres one thing I noticed,no users were shown when I clicked 'users' in the windows task manager!! could it be that my PC was being hacked? Norton antivirus did not seem to show any viruses after a full system scan and neither did the microsoft antispy detect any spywares..... Please someone help! Im frustrated!
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