For some reason my cpu usage is always at 100%, and it has been like this for the past week. And my comp used to shut down normally when I hit shutdown...but now when I hit shutdown I have to manually hold down the shutdown button to turn it off. Both these problems started at the same time. It all started when my battery ran out on my laptop and normally it would go into hibernation, but all that happened was the screen turned black. and when i restarted the 2 above problems began. I tried running ad-aware, and virus scans and they have not fixed the problems. Can someone PLEASE HELP ME...

Spyware check? :)

AMD Athlon 2800+ barton @ 12.5 X 176 : 2200mhz
1024Mb DDR400 RAM in sync
MSI KT6 Delta mobo
Leadtek AGP 6600 gt 128Mb
120Gb Seagate HDD

Shouldn't be a power-related issue. Run Spybot S&D as well as Avast! 4 (both free) and see what comes up.

Also, go into your msconfig and see if there are any weird processes in your startup menu that shouldn't be there.

Finally, go into your uninstall menu and see if any toolbars or P2P or anything installed itself there.

well i ran Avast! 4 and spybot s&d...and they did find trojans and spyware in my windows folder and so i moved them to the avast "chest" folder. But the the problems still remain...

Ijussoill Have had sorta same problems. I removed all the norton that is possible besides FF an IE6 have Memory leaks so i removed the old version of Macromedia Flash Player an up dated , I took the computer apart an cleaned it with canned air than checked on the memory settings(virtual) they have there setting prefrences

"When u loose the game dont loose the lesson" Hang in there it could be worse"

Hello, my cpu has recently gone up to around 70-80% at times. However, most of the time, it is very low which is good lol. I sometimes put dvd's on my computer. One time, I left like 7 on at a time, even though my laptop is 70gb. I deleted them, yet am still experiencing slow startup problems. I run adaware and anti-spyware a lot, and do not download music. I have tried everything, from disk cleanup to checking the drive for errors. I have only used up around 15 gb. Can someone please come up with a solution to fix my problem? Thank you