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Lisa F
December 12th 03, 07:31 AM
Andrew - I Have the same problem. It is a program called
msckin.exe which is using virtually all CPU power. This
program cannot be killed in the Task Manager - it keeps
returning. I did a search of my files, and it appears to
be a .pf program related to XP usage (prefetch) Not sure
what that is. I cannot use the computer it is so slow.
Any help please let me know.




Original Message-----
>I'm reposting this problem of windows explorer
>periodically spiking to 100%cpu usage, which many people
>seem to have but no one has a very clear response about
>what causes it or how to fix it. I've read 317751 which
>details this exact problem, but microsoft claims to have
>fixed this in a Service Pack. As far as i can tell, i
>never had this problem BEFORE the service pack. If
there's
>a hotfix that'll take care of this, great. But for now,
>i've tried not running Norton, but it still happened.
>Maybe if i uninstall SP1 and then reinstall it, or
install
>SP1a? Please help me out, because this whole thing makes
>my computer run waaaay too slow. THanks in advance.
>andrew
>.
>

Spooky Cheese
December 12th 03, 07:31 AM
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:48:14 -0700, "Lisa F" >
wrote:

>Original Message-----
>>I'm reposting this problem of windows explorer
>>periodically spiking to 100%cpu usage, which many people
>>seem to have but no one has a very clear response about
>>what causes it or how to fix it. I've read 317751 which
>>details this exact problem, but microsoft claims to have
>>fixed this in a Service Pack. As far as i can tell, i
>>never had this problem BEFORE the service pack. If
>there's
>>a hotfix that'll take care of this, great. But for now,
>>i've tried not running Norton, but it still happened.
>>Maybe if i uninstall SP1 and then reinstall it, or
>install
>>SP1a? Please help me out, because this whole thing makes
>>my computer run waaaay too slow. THanks in advance.
>>andrew

>Andrew - I Have the same problem. It is a program called
>msckin.exe which is using virtually all CPU power. This
>program cannot be killed in the Task Manager - it keeps
>returning. I did a search of my files, and it appears to
>be a .pf program related to XP usage (prefetch) Not sure
>what that is. I cannot use the computer it is so slow.
>Any help please let me know.

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