Suddenly lots of processes running, draining cpu speed

[JE Bailey]

I recently reformatted my harddrive and reinstalled XP
Home Edition on my pc. Everything worked fine for 4
days, then yesterday afternoon I got home from work,
booted up the computer, and immediately noticed a big
slowdown. I made sure their were no programs running in
the background. I brought up the Task Manager and saw
that even though no programs were running, there were
dozens of processes going, and my cpu usage ranged from
70-85%, continuous!

The only software I installed was a brand new edition of
Microsoft Works Suite 2003, and the pc ran okay after
that. I hadn't updated my XP yet, so today I'm
downloading service packs and updates (set it up for huge
download before I left for work... I hate 56k dialup, but
it's all I have access to).

Help!

[Mark L. Ferguson]

You probably have defrag, or Indexing service running in the background

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"JE Bailey" > wrote in message
...
> I recently reformatted my harddrive and reinstalled XP
> Home Edition on my pc. Everything worked fine for 4
> days, then yesterday afternoon I got home from work,
> booted up the computer, and immediately noticed a big
> slowdown. I made sure their were no programs running in
> the background. I brought up the Task Manager and saw
> that even though no programs were running, there were
> dozens of processes going, and my cpu usage ranged from
> 70-85%, continuous!
>
> The only software I installed was a brand new edition of
> Microsoft Works Suite 2003, and the pc ran okay after
> that. I hadn't updated my XP yet, so today I'm
> downloading service packs and updates (set it up for huge
> download before I left for work... I hate 56k dialup, but
> it's all I have access to).
>
> Help!
>