Sluggish laptop

I am having a problem with the cpu usage on my laptop. Something is causing the cpu to be overused with nothing running. A simple mouse move can cause it to spike from 5% up to 90+%. Also I have AdawareSE installed and the last two times I ran it the definitions were 19 and 25 days old when I had just updated it 3 days before. The only scan that found anything was the Panda Activescan. All log files are attached for your viewing pleasure.

 

Here are the rest of the log files

 

Things seem a little better,but they are still somewhat slow. My audio and video files skip quite a bit. I think I have step 2 taken care of properly now. My version of ewido is the free version.

 

Here is the fixwareout log

 

I'm sorry I haven't responded for so long. My system has crashed and Gateway tech support wants me to send it in for repair. Apparently they've had problems with hdd's in this model. So I guess there is'nt anything else you can help me with. Thanks for your time though.

 

If it's under warranty this isn't a bad idea however if it's not then it may be best to take it to your local computer service office. If Gateway get's it they will lose your data, they are here to fix not save. I learned the hard way years ago.

When you say "crash" what exactly do you mean? What does it do?

 

The laptop is only 3 mths old. The last thing I did was remove Ewido and McAfee and then I got an error message that the ntoskrnl.exe was missing or corrupt. I was just going to replace the file from the cd, but gateway puts a recover partition on the hdd and during the recovery it bypasses the cd-rom and goes straight to this partition. I ran the recovery w/backup option to save my data, but that had numerous copy errors. I tried to put the backup on my external hdd through the CLI, but got a lot of copy errors as well. Then I did a complete fresh install from the recovery cd . Surprise surprise.. more copy errors. So all of my data is gone and my system is a very expensive paper weight right now.

 

The file "ntoskrnl.exe" is your boot screen.

Have you tried setting the BIOS to boot from CD first?

 

It's already set to boot from cd 1st, but it looks for the recovery partition 1st. I played with it for a wk but couldn't get around it. I hate manufactured pc's with their propriotery software. That's why I build my own systems, but unfortunately you can't build a laptop at home.

 

Yeah, If you could I would have a me a nice laptop, lol.

Well, the only thing I can recommend from here is posting this in the Software Forum. Those guys may be able to come up with something else to better help you.