100% CPU Usage and more..., PLEASE help!

rosemondam · May 16, 2006

Hey... I need some help please.
My laptop is constantly using about 7-15% (CPU usage) for some reason; JUST starting today. If I open a program or try to do something in the program, the CPU usage jumps to 100%.
I noticed this morning how slow my computer was running.
Results of HiJackThis: found nothing.
Results of CCleaner: removed a little junk;nothing major.
Windows Defender is running.

In task manager, the System Idle Process is 98-99% and the leading programs taking up the most K's are:
iexplorer with 48,884
Rtvscan with 11,512
explorer with 20,172
svchost with 21,076 and it's on there again with 2,120
MsMpEng with 7,908 (w/e that is)
YahooCental.exe with 7,748
....and everything else is 1000k or above (average is 2000k). Only about 3 items are less than 1000k.
Task Manager says I have 58 Processes running and Commit Charge is 326M/1248M

(Side note: I am very protective over my laptop...I hate spyware and I typically don't have issues.)

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE, PLEASE Help me?! I hate when my computer messes up...and I can't fix it! Thank you soooooo much.

theefool · May 16, 2006

Try the following:

Click START, then RUN, then type in MSCONFIG (press enter)

Click the radial button: Selective STARTUP.

UNCHECK: Load STARTUP Items.

Press OK, yes, to reboot.

If you see a normal system, then it is something started up that is taking your system resources.

Next, slowly check pertient programs to start, reboot, check the %, I.E. antivirus programs (one check box at a time), defender, etc.

PITA, but it works.....

bigbazza · May 17, 2006

Try Process Explorer. http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4566

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

Main point omitted from

, above, is that it will also tell you what programs (handles?) are hogging your CPU cycles. I use Process Explorer. I sort PE to descending CPU use. Then shrink the screen to show the top 5-6 users of CPU cycles. Then minimise it so it is instantly available when I need to check something out. Works very well, excellent, in fact.
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TimW · May 17, 2006

Don't know if this applies to your situation, but worth a look:
"CPU utilization goes up to 100% when viewing AVI files it slows the rest of the system to a crawl. As always though, there's a registry hack that can solve this problem, you just have to know where to look!
Load up regedit (start -> Run then type regedit and press the Ok button) and follow this path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Classes -> CLSID -> {87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE650DC73E}.
Once you're there delete the key then save and exit. Once that's done AVI files will no longer suck up all the CPU resources".

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