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Windows Task Manager; high CPU use
At my work computer, when I go to Yahoo Mail, the CPU Usage goes
extremely high (over 50%), and causes me to be unable to load any web pages at all. I have to wait 3-5 minutes for the CPU usage to go down again, and then I can load pages again. It doesn't always happen in Yahoo Mail, but it often does, and it happens with either Firefox or IE. On the Performance display, there are two history graphs. When I have this problem, the first graph goes up to 100% but the second one appears normal. What does that mean? I've only had this problem a few weeks yet I've been at this computer almost a year. Sometimes I try closing all other programs but it often doesn't help. Thanks. |
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Windows Task Manager; high CPU use
Richard Fangnail wrote:
At my work computer, when I go to Yahoo Mail, the CPU Usage goes extremely high (over 50%), and causes me to be unable to load any web pages at all. I have to wait 3-5 minutes for the CPU usage to go down again, and then I can load pages again. It doesn't always happen in Yahoo Mail, but it often does, and it happens with either Firefox or IE. On the Performance display, there are two history graphs. When I have this problem, the first graph goes up to 100% but the second one appears normal. What does that mean? I've only had this problem a few weeks yet I've been at this computer almost a year. Sometimes I try closing all other programs but it often doesn't help. You likely have multiple (dual) cores. My suggestion: Uninstall *all* internet plugins (in particular): - Quicktime (or alternatives) - Real Player (or alternatives) - Java Runtime Environment (all versions) - Shockwave - Flash Also remove any toolbars you have installed above defaults. Particularly any Yahoo ones, Google ones, etc. Reboot. Download and install the latest version for each plugin in both of your browsers. Leave out the toolbars for now. Reboot. Try going to your Yahoo Mail page. Come back - let everyone here know how that went... -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Windows Task Manager; high CPU use
Open up task manager, go to the Processes tab then sort on the CPU cycles by
clicking on the CPU header twice. You will see the processes that are taking up your cpu cycles in the decending order from most to least. Report on that. If you have Windows Search 4.0 installed it can hog your cpu. It is really bad with taking cpu cycles and I would uninstall it. -- Randem Systems Your Installation Specialist The Top Inno Setup Script Generator http://www.randem.com/innoscript.html http://www.rndem.com/installerproblems.html http://www.randem.com/vistainstalls.html http://www.financialtrainingservices.org "Richard Fangnail" wrote in message ... At my work computer, when I go to Yahoo Mail, the CPU Usage goes extremely high (over 50%), and causes me to be unable to load any web pages at all. I have to wait 3-5 minutes for the CPU usage to go down again, and then I can load pages again. It doesn't always happen in Yahoo Mail, but it often does, and it happens with either Firefox or IE. On the Performance display, there are two history graphs. When I have this problem, the first graph goes up to 100% but the second one appears normal. What does that mean? I've only had this problem a few weeks yet I've been at this computer almost a year. Sometimes I try closing all other programs but it often doesn't help. Thanks. |
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Windows Task Manager; high CPU use
Per Richard Fangnail:
At my work computer, when I go to Yahoo Mail, the CPU Usage goes extremely high (over 50%), and causes me to be unable to load any web pages at all. I have to wait 3-5 minutes for the CPU usage to go down again, and then I can load pages again. It doesn't always happen in Yahoo Mail, but it often does, and it happens with either Firefox or IE. Having also had problems - some of which were very high CPU usage for no apparent reason, where TaskMan didn't shed any light; I elected to re-image the PC. Not real elegant, but it does do the job. At home, I've got an adolescent pounding on my box couple hours a day - so restoring from a known good image is common enough that I feel comfortable adopting the strategy for my machine at work. One key is learning to store data in places other than the system drive. I had the work PC re-partitioned w/40 gigs for the system and the rest for data. As I slowly build it back up - installing apps as I need them - I'm taking an image every time I go to lunch. By the week's end, if my PC hasn't begun doing anything weird again, I'll have an image of a system that is fully functional for me. With that image available, my plan is to simply re-image whenever things even *look* like they're getting flaky. Along the way, I keep a list of anything I do to the current image - like installing applications, so when I fall back to an earlier image I can bring it up to date and then capture that image as my backup. Also, if I'm going to do a major install sometime later on - like the VB.Net development environment or something, I'll fall back to the last image just for good measure; then do the install and image again. First few times I re-imaged on my home PC, I got burned one way or another. But eventually I learned not to store data on the system drive and re-imaging became trivial. -- PeteCresswell |
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