System performance poor, system process with 95-98% cpu

[NG]

OS is windows xp with sp1.
(System config- 256mb ram, 1.3 GHz processor)
System performance is very poor and when i check the
processes, system is taking the major chunck of cpu ie
about 95-98%. When I checked related postings in the
newsgroup there is an advise to "Try disabling Indexing
Service in Control Panel>Admin Tools>Services. Rt
click on Index Service select Properties and in the
Startup Type Field choose disable." I see that the index
service is not active.
Is there anything that can be done to make the system
perform better and why is that the system is
overstraining.

[Leon]

"NG" > wrote in message
...
> OS is windows xp with sp1.
> (System config- 256mb ram, 1.3 GHz processor)
> System performance is very poor and when i check the
> processes, system is taking the major chunck of cpu ie
> about 95-98%. When I checked related postings in the
> newsgroup there is an advise to "Try disabling Indexing
> Service in Control Panel>Admin Tools>Services. Rt
> click on Index Service select Properties and in the
> Startup Type Field choose disable." I see that the index
> service is not active.
> Is there anything that can be done to make the system
> perform better and why is that the system is
> overstraining.
>
When you say "system is taking the major chunck of cpu ie
> about 95-98%" are you talking about System Idle Process?

If so, the System Idle Process indicates the percent of the CPU that is NOT
being used.

Leon

[NG]

System Idle process was just 1% of CPU. Remaining was
taken by 'System' process.

System hangs up after few minutes and I need to switch off
the computer to make it better, i feel.

Other instance is that when I click on the IE, it opens
after 5-10 minutes later. So thats the problem.

Thank you for your suggestions.
.....NG


>-----Original Message-----
>"NG" > wrote in message
...
>> OS is windows xp with sp1.
>> (System config- 256mb ram, 1.3 GHz processor)
>> System performance is very poor and when i check the
>> processes, system is taking the major chunck of cpu ie
>> about 95-98%. When I checked related postings in the
>> newsgroup there is an advise to "Try disabling Indexing
>> Service in Control Panel>Admin Tools>Services. Rt
>> click on Index Service select Properties and in the
>> Startup Type Field choose disable." I see that the index
>> service is not active.
>> Is there anything that can be done to make the system
>> perform better and why is that the system is
>> overstraining.
>>
>When you say "system is taking the major chunck of cpu ie
>> about 95-98%" are you talking about System Idle Process?
>
>If so, the System Idle Process indicates the percent of
the CPU that is NOT
>being used.
>
>Leon
>
>
>.
>