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This will sound a bit strange, but I've discovered recently that when I'm here at Computing.net, my cpu usage in task manager jumps to anywhere from 50 to 90 percent and my system slows down significantly. The offending program is msn.exe (my MSN9 internet access software). I have no other applications or webpages open.
It only happens when I'm here, and it stays that way long after the page has loaded and there's no disk or internet activity. As soon as I close it and go somewhere else, my cpu usage immediately drops back down to around 11%, I get my speed back, and I can have a half dozen different pages open with no problem whatsoever.
I know that of course there's nothing wrong with the site, the problem must be here in my machine somewhere, but any ideas as to what in particular about this site may be causing my system to do this?
It's making me a little nuts.
Thanks!
P.S. Just so I don't sound like a crazy person, I took two screenshots to show what my system resources are at computing.net, and then what they are at any other site. Let me know if any of you would like to see them. Again, I know that the computing.net folks are experts, and that there is nothing wrong with the site. It's just something about computing.net and my system in particular that drives my cpu usage through the roof. Thanks again!
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Hi Justin,
Thanks for the response, I appreciate it. How can I test this? Is there another site that you know of with lots of flash animation that I might surf to and test this out? Again... thanks much! You have a great site here, which has proven invaluable to me :)
Feel free to write directly to my email if you wish. I'm a bit perplexed by the whole thing.
Jim
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Hello,
The best way to test would be to go into tools/internet options/security/custom level then set "Run active X controls and Plugins" to disable. You can reset it after the test.
Justin
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Thanks Justin, but it didn't make any difference. Perhaps there is just something about MSN9 and Computing.net that drives my available computer resources down? I'm at a loss. I've taken screenshots all along the way, so if you want, I can send them to you. Thanks again. Jim.
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Hello,
If its only happening to you, I probably wouldn't be of as much help as the people on this forum familiar with MSN.
Justin
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Hi Laraby... thanks for the response. As per your suggestion, I did try viewing the site with just a simple dialup connection and Internet Explorer, bypassing the MSN software altogether. Got the exact same result, only the task manager showed iexplore.exe sucking up all of my resources, rather than msn.exe. So i guess the problem has nothing to do with MSN itself. That's some progress anyway :)
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Hello,
I would expect the problem is with IE since MSN runs ontop of IE. You say you have a PII 400. I just checked the site on my old PII 266 with 160 megs of ram, and the CPU usage was around 40%. This is much less than yours on a slower computer. I would say fairly confidently the problem lies somewhere in your setup. I still suspect flash has something to do with it. This is especially like if the problem came up recently.
Justin
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Justin,
You are correct... I uninstalled Shockwave and Flash altogether (I've been wanting to download the more recent versions anyway), and while they were uninstalled I came back to the site. CPU usage was back down to around 11 percent. After installing the latest Macromedia versions, it's gone back up, but not by as much (around 50%), and still on this site only.
As you mentioned in your post, the problem does seem to have appeared recently. Is there a way to disable Flash animation for specific sites, or can I only do this globally?
Thanks for all you help!
Jim
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Hello,
To put it as simply as possible, I don't know. Perhaps you can add Computing.Net to the restricted sites in your internet options/security and play around with the active x settings until shockwave and flash don't load.
Justin
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