[thelist] What's eating my PC

[Adrian Thompson]

Hi. Take a look at
http://forums.sygatetech.com/showthread.php?s=e00c0fe674ac286ed098676e04d61da6&threadid=737&highlight=smc.exe
(watch the wrapping)

It seems to discuss the problem you're having.

If the problem does turn out to be Sygate Firewall, you could do a lot
worse than try Zone Alarm (http://www.zonelabs.com) - it's free for
personal use, and seems (on my machine at least!) to be stable, and
non-resource hogging.

HTH,

Adrian Thompson


At 15:55 03/06/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>I run Win 2K (for better or worse--I have no choice) and occasionally, like
>once a day, some process called Smc.exe takes over at least half of my
>processor, if not more.  Even though I should in theory still have a half a
>processor, my PC crawls and I need to restart.  It eats up my processor but
>only uses about 12 meg RAM.  All this info is what my Task Manager
>indicates.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>Hershel
>
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