[thelist] PC: CPU running at 95-100%?

Ken Schaefer ken at adOpenStatic.com
Fri May 7 23:34:13 CDT 2004


Try to determine what services are living inside the svchost.exe that is
chewing up all the CPU:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml

Alterternatively, try stopping a few non-essential services to see if that
helps isolate the problem.
Anything in the Windows Event Logs?

Lastly, I suggest you try a dedicated Windows group, rather than this one. I
think I've mentioned:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/forums/subscribe.cfm?list=ntsysadmin
this list before.

Cheers
Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Dell'Aringa" <pixelmech at yahoo.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 10:02 AM
Subject: [thelist] PC: CPU running at 95-100%?


: Hey PC Experts, quick question. Lately my PC seems to be taking a
: long time to do things (launch programs, the like). Every time I open
: up the task manager and look at performance, the CPU is running at
: 90-100% *constantly*.
:
: This doesn't seem right. When I look at the processes, its
: SVCHOST.exe that is taking up the time.
:
: Is this normal? I've scanned for viruses, spyware but none.



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