tjb
Thu Mar 20 02:07:01 PDT 2008
thanks for your reply.
yes i have a system metrics on my desktop and i get a lot of 100% cpu spikes.
after downloading processor explorer, system idle process is first most of
the time, webroot spysweeper seems to be next most of the time.
"JS" wrote:
> It could be a sub-process or application that's running in the background
> and taking all
> the CPU resources, which could be the cause of your PC running slow.
>
> To find and display what could be the problem try Process Explorer:
>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/ProcessExplorer.mspx
>
> Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
> In the taskbar select View and check 'Show Process Tree' and 'Show Lower
> Pane' options.
> Then expand the process named 'Explorer' (click on the + sign)
> In the column on the left named 'CPU', look for any high CPU usage.
> Next click on the CPU column to sort the processes by %CPU usage (Highest to
> Lowest).
> Move the mouse cursor over any process, you should see a popup with some
> detailed info.
> Then mouse over the process that's using most or all the CPU %.
> Then click on that process to highlight it,
> Now that it's highlighted, right click and from the options listed select:
> Search Online
> This should display what out there on the web about that process.
> You can also double click on any process to open up a more detailed
> 'Properties' window.
>
> Note: some entries like Explorer, System/Services, Svchost may need to be
> expanded to show the detail,
> (sub processes), in this case click on the + located to the left of the
> entry.
>
> JS
>
> "tjb" <tjb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FAABD381-1564-41E2-BC46-DF7DAE9B5308@microsoft.com...
> >i have xp home sp2 up to date
> > hp pavillion.
> > ive been having very slow and halting performance and heve had
> > difficulties
> > with some programs.
> > ive done numerous anti-virus scans and malware scans with avg, defender,
> > spybot, spysweeper, counterspy and have found nothing. my scan time over
> > the
> > past week or so went from 3:20 to 6 hours for a total scan of my entire
> > computer.
> >
> > i have 71 gb of space on c drive of which 33% is used.
> > i have 5.27 gb total space on my hp d recovery drive, with 85% used.
> >
> > one of my avg scans of my d drive caused spysweeper to quarantine a ps2
> > bug
> > from d drive. now it seems to keep showing up during scans of d drive.
> >
> > is it normal to have so much of d recovery drive filled?
> > it use to take only a few minutes to scan it now it takes an hour or more.
> >
> > thanks.
>
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