System process at 100% CPU usage

[Mike Sullivan]

I've got a Win XP Pro system w/ all the latest updates,
etc. I noticed that my system was slow, so I looked at
the process monitor and see that a process with an image
name of System and a User Name of SYSTEM that is 220k in
size is running at 90-99% CPU utilization. How can I
determine what this process really is and what the
problem may be? Any pointers will be helpful.

Thanks

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Description of Svchost.exe:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q250/3/20.ASP
Default Processes in Windows 2000:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q263/2/01.ASP

For a list of running tasks, open a command prompt, and type:

netstat -ano

then:

tasklist /svc


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"Mike Sullivan" > wrote in message
...
> I've got a Win XP Pro system w/ all the latest updates,
> etc. I noticed that my system was slow, so I looked at
> the process monitor and see that a process with an image
> name of System and a User Name of SYSTEM that is 220k in
> size is running at 90-99% CPU utilization. How can I
> determine what this process really is and what the
> problem may be? Any pointers will be helpful.
>
> Thanks