"MG" wrote:

I've read many posts regarding the lengthy start-up issues associated with
svchost and MS updates - mine appears somewhat different. After booting up,
and after all services have started, my machine runs through cycles of CPU -
viewed on Task Manager these spkies are typically around 40% of CPU,
sometimes higher, and are occurring on a very consistent cycle, around every
6-8 seconds. This happens even with nothing open on my machine.

I've run all the scans to check for viruses and spyware. I can see that
these processes running are within svchost.exe and/or services.exe. I've
tried shutting down everything that is in my startup and the problem still
exists. This cycling of CPU goes on non-stop, all the time. As it eats CPU
on these cycles, other processes are now affected - example, a full virus
scan now takes about twice as long as it used to. As there are tons of tasks
running within svchost, I have no idea how to narrow this down. I'm running
XP Home/SP2 and have applied all updates automatically. Any ideas?

HI MG,
I gone through your Past thread, but believe me you didn't do yourself a
favour by not answering the helper there.
First MowGreen asked you do you have Spybot or any other Software installed,
you didn't answer I don't know why?.
Come to your issue please read these steps according the Event Viewer Log
you posted, if there are any other error, please feel free to share it with
us here!.

answer In-line under each error : = read the whole post then perform the
steps
1 = mrtRate service failed to start due to the following error: The system
cannot find the file
specified.
QuickBooks Pro 2002 or 2004 by any chance?,If you do then proceed with
these steps below:
disabling Quicken's Background Downloading do this:

1- Start QuickBooks 200? application.
2- Then On the Edit menu click Options then select Internet Options.
3- On the Internet Options Select Don't use Background Downloading then
click [OK], does it help?.
open run command and type in:
services.msc click [OK]
Locate the service and disable it or set it to Manual
To disable Quicken's Background Downloading driver:
http://web.intuit.com/support/quicken/99/win/6173.html
In the Open box, type regedt32, and then click [OK].
Locate this Key and you can see the service the
[-]HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\ServiceName
= "mrtRate.exe"

"STOP 0x9f" in Ntoskrnl.exe When Shutting Down or Restarting Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];245835

2 = Management service terminated with the following error: The specified
module
could not be found.
Open the services control panel and start these services:
Service Status StartUp type
Server Started Automatically
Terminal Services Started Manual
Remote Procedure Call Runtime (RPC) started Auto

Does this XP Home or professional?.
Adding or removing a program may generate Event ID 7023
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328213

3= d:\qxp_slp\com\com1x\src\event s\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp.
Open a run command and type in:
services.msc click [OK]
Make sure this service started Manual or Auto
Service Status
StartUp type
COM+ Event System Started Manual
Background Intelligent Transfer Started Manual
Messenger
Disabled

Do you have other type of messenger installed?.

4= ntoskrnl.exe+0x4856
ntoskrnl.exe!CcUnpinDataForThread+0x338
ntoskrnl.exe!ZwYieldExecution+0xb78
ntdll.dll!KiFastSystemCallRet
RPCRT4.dll!I_RpcBCacheFree+0x5ea
RPCRT4.dll!I_RpcBCacheFree+0x403
RPCRT4.dll!I_RpcBCacheFree+0x5d2
kernel32.dll!GetModuleFileNameA+0x1b4

The above beside a debugger dump, it could be a bad RAM, try to test the RAM
and switch them around.
Run the Chkdsk, or System File Checker (sfc):
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true
How to configure Windows XP to start in a "clean boot" state
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353

If the above did not help, try to send back with the list of start up
programs, services.
Also it is best if you uninstall McAfee and the rest of software from the
Old ISP and run disk clean up then defrag in safe mode, you can get a free 30
days with McAfee then if you liked and thing worked okay you can renew:
http://download.mcafee.com/eval/evaluate2.asp
To be sure try this extra step:
Download the Hijackthis and send the report to one of
many
forums for analysis and troubleshooting:
When all else fails, HijackThis v1.99.1
(http://aumha.org/downloads/hijackthis.zip) is the preferred tool to use.
It will help you to both identify and remove any hijackware/spyware. Post
your log to http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30,
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html,
http://forums.subratam.org/index.php?showforum=7, or other appropriate
forums for expert analysis, not here.
HTH.
nass
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