Help with CPU

Gurrg · Posted: Mon May 19, 2003 7:01 pm Post subject:

if it's not where you find your RAM at (my computer/right click on the background and it will show your system and stuff) Mine is shown when windows is starting up i hit F4 i believe it is.
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tinkerbell · Registered User Joined: 29 Sep 2001 Posts: 29

What also can cause high cpu spikes is virus scanning software ie. Nortons, Etrust etc etc. Was having spikes myself and originally thought it was the server causing the lag, but turned out it was cpu (felt like I was playing in mud) I know Etrust has a patch for this problem and as of a few months ago Nortons had a workaround (pain in the rear so uninstalled and got etrust - I really like it.) My cpu spikeage so far has stopped.

FYI.. was noticing sizable decrease in disc space.. major decrease. Turned out Nortons was filling up its 'protected bin' with garbage.. every 3 days had to empty it or it would have at least 1g of nonsense (another reason I dumped Nortons)

Yahoooo.. I'm up to 21.. gonna catch up with Roofcutter

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FingerDemon · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 11:51 am Post subject:

In XP and Win2000 you can look to see which program is hosing your CPU cycles. Pull up the Task Manager and choose the Processes tab. Then Click the column marked CPU. It then sorts by which program is using the CPU most/least. Just click it twice to list the process using the most cycles at the top. At least then you might be able to identify which one is causing the trouble. Then you can google on that name (if you don't recognize it outright) to find out what it is and whether you need it.

Good luck,

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