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My laptop is eating up CPU like crazy, with 100% maximum frequency even while idling, and disk space is at a premium. The memory is about 50%-60% used while idling too. Is there any way I can reduce this insane computer usage?
Manufacturer: Hewlett-packard Model: Compaq presario cq50 notebook pc OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium CPU/Ram: 2 GHz / 2813 MB Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G Sound Card: Co
Name: makinu1der2 Date: January 18, 2009 at 22:27:56 Pacific
Reply:
Open the Task Manager and look at the Process
tab. See what process is using the resources.
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Response Number 2
Name: Axe27 Date: January 19, 2009 at 10:41:46 Pacific
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Basically anything that happens to be running at the moment is using up a huge chunk of CPU. I'm not entirely sure why it's eating up so much CPU where the same processes a week before would've found used by very little. I am used Spybot search and Destroy software that has found and eliminated some malware.
EDIT:EDIT:And then is jumped back up to 100% total usage. What the f--- is deal here...?
EDIT: I went in this morning and ended some services that I don't need, and cleaned the files out using Mcaffee Quickclean. This reduced the CPU usage to a 50% constant with no to little disk usage.
Manufacturer: Hewlett-packard Model: Compaq presario cq50 notebook pc OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium CPU/Ram: 2 GHz / 2813 MB Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8200M G Sound Card: Co
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Response Number 3
Name: Kurt S Date: April 16, 2009 at 09:44:23 Pacific
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Server, why are you replying to posts that are 4 months old?
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