CPU Usage jumps 13 to 100% all the time

I have a dell optiplex gx280 pentium 4 cpu 2.4 ghz, 1gb of ram xp w/sp2. Last few months puter been getting slow...checked virus, spyware, etc. so far puter clean. Found major geeks and started reading...looked at task mgr...found cpu very high..all posts say not good. Slow on all programs & applications. Avail. memory 690mb. PLEASE help...

 

Have you try this link.....

http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12


infoseeker

 

What processes are cuasing the CPU to hit 100%. When in task mang select Processes tab and sort by CPU, now which processes are using all the memory? Post back with some answers and we will go from there. Side point are you using Norton!?!

 

I have McAfee security center (personal firewall, virus scan, privacy service, spam blocker) Trend Micro and lavasoft ad-ware se professional.
sqlserur.exe 8,136k
sqlserur.exe 29,860k
svchost.exe 21,200k
Tmas.exe 13,008k
Iexplore.exe 11,640k
explore.exe 10,644k
Ad-watch.exe 9,288k
McShield.exe 9,124k
These are the big ones, I have Directway 2/way satellite internet.
Hope this helps.

 

Okay well here are a couple of links for finding what most processors are, are the necassary and if not how to remove them:

http://www.processlibrary.com/

http://www.answersthatwork.com/

Now I could do this for you but personally I think it is a very important learning process tha everyone should do at least once. If you get stuck on it post back.

 

THANK YOU! Bold Eagle
I downloaded The Ultimate Troubleshooter and was able to fix a lot of problems. I thank you very much for your help. If I need help again I know where to go to first.

 

Hmmmm bit confused by your comment, I didn't intend you to DL a link and certainly hoped it didn't COST YOU MONEY but just tried to direct you to some links where you could explore the potential issues in greater detail. I hope you learnt something from it more than forked out any cash. Sincerely hoped you have resolved things and you can fly soar like an eagle as such

 

You have two antivirus programs installed? I would recommend that you use only 1 as having two will cause all kinds of problems.