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Help with 100% CPU at startup
I am running Win XP SP3 and have 82 Gbs of hard drive free space and
1024 MB memory. Lately when I first boot up the pc ever program or application bogs don the pc and I get a notice in the sys tray telling me that 100% of the CPU has been reached. When I look in Processes in Windows Task Manager - I notice that I have 7 iterations of svchost.exe running. One of these is using over 234,256K of memory and the others considerably less. Also there is a process called wuauclt.exe that is using almost 146,000K. The pc is frustratingly slow to perform any function for over 2 hours. Later the speed increses dramatically and the pc performs as in the past. I don't know if the two processes mentioned are the cause, but when the pc returns to normal speed, I notice that wuauclt is down to 212K and the largest svchost is 13,284K and the rest are in the 1732K to 2288K range. I would appreciate any input on whether the slow down is caused by the two .exes discuused. Are these processes necessary or can they be inactivated? Or should I be looking elsewhere for a cause. Mary |
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Help with 100% CPU at startup
ECLiPSE 2002 wrote:
I am running Win XP SP3 and have 82 Gbs of hard drive free space and 1024 MB memory. Lately when I first boot up the pc ever program or application bogs don the pc and I get a notice in the sys tray telling me that 100% of the CPU has been reached. When I look in Processes in Windows Task Manager - I notice that I have 7 iterations of svchost.exe running. One of these is using over 234,256K of memory and the others considerably less. Also there is a process called wuauclt.exe that is using almost 146,000K. The pc is frustratingly slow to perform any function for over 2 hours. Later the speed increses dramatically and the pc performs as in the past. I don't know if the two processes mentioned are the cause, but when the pc returns to normal speed, I notice that wuauclt is down to 212K and the largest svchost is 13,284K and the rest are in the 1732K to 2288K range. I would appreciate any input on whether the slow down is caused by the two .exes discuused. Are these processes necessary or can they be inactivated? Or should I be looking elsewhere for a cause. Mary Turn off system Updates completely. Reboot your system, and see if wuauclt.exe is gone. wuauclt.exe is the update program. If it's still there, it's probably a trojan. How does your system run, if you boot into Safe Mode with Networking? Do a malware scan. Download the free versions of MalwareByte's Antimalware and Superantispyware. Do full scans with both. You system is probably badly infected. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ http://superantispyware.com/ Stef |
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Help with 100% CPU at startup
Stef wrote:
ECLiPSE 2002 wrote: I am running Win XP SP3 and have 82 Gbs of hard drive free space and 1024 MB memory. Lately when I first boot up the pc ever program or application bogs don the pc and I get a notice in the sys tray telling me that 100% of the CPU has been reached. When I look in Processes in Windows Task Manager - I notice that I have 7 iterations of svchost.exe running. One of these is using over 234,256K of memory and the others considerably less. Also there is a process called wuauclt.exe that is using almost 146,000K. The pc is frustratingly slow to perform any function for over 2 hours. Later the speed increses dramatically and the pc performs as in the past. I don't know if the two processes mentioned are the cause, but when the pc returns to normal speed, I notice that wuauclt is down to 212K and the largest svchost is 13,284K and the rest are in the 1732K to 2288K range. I would appreciate any input on whether the slow down is caused by the two .exes discuused. Are these processes necessary or can they be inactivated? Or should I be looking elsewhere for a cause. Mary Turn off system Updates completely. Reboot your system, and see if wuauclt.exe is gone. wuauclt.exe is the update program. If it's still there, it's probably a trojan. How does your system run, if you boot into Safe Mode with Networking? Do a malware scan. Download the free versions of MalwareByte's Antimalware and Superantispyware. Do full scans with both. You system is probably badly infected. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ http://superantispyware.com/ Stef System updates started doing that to me in September I think. It must be using some unbelievably bad algorithm to sort installed updates or something. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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Help with 100% CPU at startup
It's Windows/Automatic/MS Updates. Disable its service and manually get
the updates (will still be slow and hogging CPU though, but you can decide when to do it). MS knows about it and will fix it according to http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft...ue-soon-230940 .... Who knows when it will be fixed though especially with Thanksgiving 2013 and other holidays coming up. -- "Better (to be) an ant's head than a lion's tail." --Armenian and Maltese /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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Help with 100% CPU at startup
On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 05:55:16 -0800, Ant wrote:
It's Windows/Automatic/MS Updates. Disable its service and manually get the updates (will still be slow and hogging CPU though, but you can decide when to do it). MS knows about it and will fix it according to http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft...ue-soon-230940 ... Who knows when it will be fixed though especially with Thanksgiving 2013 and other holidays coming up. Plus April 2014 is just around the corner. Why fix it unless something is planned for after the EOL date? -- Zilbandy |
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Help with 100% CPU at startup
On 11/23/2013 9:10 AM PT, Zilbandy typed:
It's Windows/Automatic/MS Updates. Disable its service and manually get the updates (will still be slow and hogging CPU though, but you can decide when to do it). MS knows about it and will fix it according to http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft...ue-soon-230940 ... Who knows when it will be fixed though especially with Thanksgiving 2013 and other holidays coming up. Plus April 2014 is just around the corner. Why fix it unless something is planned for after the EOL date? Yeah, MS is trying get XP SP3 users to upgrade. Bah! -- "I made my list for my birthday." --Christopher. "Yeah, what'd you put on there? - A basketball or an ant farm." and "This could be an ant farm. This could be a microscope or anything." --Chris from The Pursuit of Happyness movie. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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Help with 100% CPU at startup
FYI from a MS guy:
http://marc.info/?l=patchmanagement&...6900324972&w=2 from http://answers.microsoft.com//messag...9-b340c65acfa5 .... On 11/23/2013 5:55 AM PT, Ant typed: It's Windows/Automatic/MS Updates. Disable its service and manually get the updates (will still be slow and hogging CPU though, but you can decide when to do it). MS knows about it and will fix it according to http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft...ue-soon-230940 ... Who knows when it will be fixed though especially with Thanksgiving 2013 and other holidays coming up. -- "Ever watch ants just crawling around? They walk in that single straight line, a long, a long, long mile of ants. Sometimes they will walk over and pick up their dead friends and carry those around. I'm pretty sure it's because they can get in the carpool lane and pass up that line." --Ellen DeGeneres /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. |
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