Performance issue: pc "hesitates"

A reading of 100% for system idle means your system is idle 100%, that is a
good thing!


"Tom Richards" wrote in message
...
My pc is hanging on by a thread. In Task Manager I finally discovered that
something is driving my cpu to 100% most of the time. I can barely type
this text. EG, Start | All Programs | select a directory or program group
and the menu that extends to the right or left is invisible....graphics
gone....nothing else in taskmgr is running high .... just the system idle
process......sapping all resources and sending the cpu to 90 to 100%...in
the past I've had issues on other pcs like this but there has always been
a process I could shut down....I played around in safe mode to no
avail...tried system restore...no go...could this be a trojan? Something
norton missed? I've:

1) Uninstalled norton av
2) removed all dell crap
3) startup tab in msconfig is clean
4) checked cd/dvd drive cables

And now I have a pc that struggles to compose an email

--

Tom Richards

http://webhandprint.com
http://brainsturgeon.com


"Tom Richards" wrote in message
...
I recently took delivery of a true burner in every sense of the word - a
Dell 3.4 with 4 GB of RAM. I'm now into my 2nd month with it and it's been
just great...silky smooth and incredibly fast. Until the other day when I
noticed a slight "burp" or pause or hesitation when switching between
windows. If my cursor is over the taskbar, it will change to the arrows
off to either side look and pause. Sometimes it happens when I send an
email, then the pc pauses for a second or two. And opening Notepad - it
sometimes pauses. I mean, this pc would open Excel or Word in an instant,
but now it's slower there too.

I've defragged (Perfect Disk), run Spybot, Ad-Aware, spywareblaster and
spyware guard, cleared my cache, etc., etc. Possible culprit? The Google
Desktop search program. It isn't recently-installed, but I noticed that
it's taking up over 1 GB and indexes constantly. So I "paused" the
indexing, but that had no effect - the machine still sporadically
hesitates.

All updates have been installed. And, like I said, the machine is cared
for....like one of my kids....what demon could be causing the pauses? Or
is it just aging a bit and getting broken in?

--

Tom Richards

http://webhandprint.com
http://brainsturgeon.com

none wrote:

A reading of 100% for system idle means your system is idle 100%, that is
a good thing!


You need to take a reading comprehension course.


"Tom Richards" wrote in message
...
My pc is hanging on by a thread. In Task Manager I finally discovered
that something is driving my cpu to 100% most of the time. I can barely
type this text. EG, Start | All Programs | select a directory or program
group and the menu that extends to the right or left is
invisible....graphics gone....nothing else in taskmgr is running high
.... just the system idle process......sapping all resources and sending
the cpu to 90 to 100%...in the past I've had issues on other pcs like
this but there has always been a process I could shut down....I played
around in safe mode to no avail...tried system restore...no go...could
this be a trojan? Something norton missed? I've:

1) Uninstalled norton av
2) removed all dell crap
3) startup tab in msconfig is clean
4) checked cd/dvd drive cables

And now I have a pc that struggles to compose an email

--

Tom Richards

http://webhandprint.com
http://brainsturgeon.com


"Tom Richards" wrote in message
...
I recently took delivery of a true burner in every sense of the word - a
Dell 3.4 with 4 GB of RAM. I'm now into my 2nd month with it and it's
been just great...silky smooth and incredibly fast. Until the other day
when I noticed a slight "burp" or pause or hesitation when switching
between windows. If my cursor is over the taskbar, it will change to the
arrows off to either side look and pause. Sometimes it happens when I
send an email, then the pc pauses for a second or two. And opening
Notepad - it sometimes pauses. I mean, this pc would open Excel or Word
in an instant, but now it's slower there too.

I've defragged (Perfect Disk), run Spybot, Ad-Aware, spywareblaster and
spyware guard, cleared my cache, etc., etc. Possible culprit? The Google
Desktop search program. It isn't recently-installed, but I noticed that
it's taking up over 1 GB and indexes constantly. So I "paused" the
indexing, but that had no effect - the machine still sporadically
hesitates.

All updates have been installed. And, like I said, the machine is cared
for....like one of my kids....what demon could be causing the pauses? Or
is it just aging a bit and getting broken in?

--

Tom Richards

http://webhandprint.com
http://brainsturgeon.com






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"Tom Richards" wrote in message
...
My pc is hanging on by a thread. In Task Manager I finally discovered that
something is driving my cpu to 100% most of the time. I can barely type
this text. EG, Start | All Programs | select a directory or program group
and the menu that extends to the right or left is invisible....graphics
gone....nothing else in taskmgr is running high .... just the system idle
process......sapping all resources and sending the cpu to 90 to 100%...in
the past I've had issues on other pcs like this but there has always been
a process I could shut down....I played around in safe mode to no
avail...tried system restore...no go...could this be a trojan? Something
norton missed? I've:

1) Uninstalled norton av
2) removed all dell crap
3) startup tab in msconfig is clean
4) checked cd/dvd drive cables

And now I have a pc that struggles to compose an email

--

Tom Richards

http://webhandprint.com
http://brainsturgeon.com


"Tom Richards" wrote in message
...
I recently took delivery of a true burner in every sense of the word - a
Dell 3.4 with 4 GB of RAM. I'm now into my 2nd month with it and it's been
just great...silky smooth and incredibly fast. Until the other day when I
noticed a slight "burp" or pause or hesitation when switching between
windows. If my cursor is over the taskbar, it will change to the arrows
off to either side look and pause. Sometimes it happens when I send an
email, then the pc pauses for a second or two. And opening Notepad - it
sometimes pauses. I mean, this pc would open Excel or Word in an instant,
but now it's slower there too.

I've defragged (Perfect Disk), run Spybot, Ad-Aware, spywareblaster and
spyware guard, cleared my cache, etc., etc. Possible culprit? The Google
Desktop search program. It isn't recently-installed, but I noticed that
it's taking up over 1 GB and indexes constantly. So I "paused" the
indexing, but that had no effect - the machine still sporadically
hesitates.

All updates have been installed. And, like I said, the machine is cared
for....like one of my kids....what demon could be causing the pauses? Or
is it just aging a bit and getting broken in?

--

Tom Richards

http://webhandprint.com
http://brainsturgeon.com




Spyware or a trojan comes to mind. Try downloading webroot spysweeper. The
AV packages don't detect these nasties yet.