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My CPU is nearly 100% all the time
Name: kevlos Date: January 7, 2007 at 07:04:32 Pacific OS: Win XP Home CPU/Ram: 2.80 Ghz/1.18GB of RAM Product: Toshiba Equim A60-155
Comment:
As title say's and because of this my laptop keeps switchin off I have ran msconfig and on start-up tab have unchecked all the progs I dont use. But when I run windows task manager there are all these running. Help I don't know what to do.
Name: kevlos Date: January 8, 2007 at 03:04:53 Pacific
Reply:
Yes fully checked
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Response Number 3
Name: Bob (by BigBob) Date: January 8, 2007 at 06:09:34 Pacific
Reply:
Try this & see if it may help you disable the ssdp discovery service this will stop the 100 % cpu usage, go to computer right click ,left click on manage,the computer management consol,comes up ,expand the services ,,go to the right hand pane scroll down to th ssdp discovery service and right click,go to properties then stop the servivce then disable it reboot you'll be all set
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Response Number 4
Name: kevlos Date: January 9, 2007 at 09:32:24 Pacific
Reply:
Will try and report back results
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Response Number 5
Name: SteveDillon2502 Date: January 11, 2007 at 17:12:29 Pacific
Reply:
I used your fix and it worked great, I am a little concerned about the the suspension of the UpNp service and the Media Center Extender Services hopefully I won't need them later.
Steve
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Response Number 6
Name: Aragnath Date: March 11, 2007 at 09:30:52 Pacific
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