Malke
Thu Feb 21 04:48:29 PST 2008
Peter M wrote:
> During startup, my machine has become increasingly SLOW for about 5 mins
> or so, and I now discovered that msiexec is sucking up 80-90% of CPU
> resources, rendering my system useless until msiexec decides to go away.
> why is msiexec running, when I am not trying to install anything? how can
> i get rid of this aggravating annoyance at startup?
> thanx
The First Question Of Troubleshooting: what changed between the time things
worked and the time they didn't?
The Second Question of Windows Troubleshooting: what is the malware/virus
status of the machine? If you think it is clean, what programs (and
versions) did you use to determine this?
Be sure the computer is clean:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware
Malke
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