risky Posted March 18, 2005 CID Share Posted March 18, 2005 Sometimes when im playing a game or sometimes out of no where my computer will start running at 100% process and start lagging everything my specs are below. If anyone knows of a way to fix this 'problem'. please post. Thanks in advance. AMD Athlon 3000+ 512MB DDR 120 out of 160gb free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted March 18, 2005 CID Share Posted March 18, 2005 did you do a scan for spyware, etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risky Posted March 18, 2005 Author CID Share Posted March 18, 2005 all the time, adware and spyware :- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted March 18, 2005 CID Share Posted March 18, 2005 did you ever find out which process was taking all the processor time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risky Posted March 18, 2005 Author CID Share Posted March 18, 2005 explorer.exe.. btw i dont use IE I use mozilla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted March 18, 2005 CID Share Posted March 18, 2005 explorer.exe is windows its self - the taskbar, desktop, and any folders you have open IE is iexplore.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risky Posted March 18, 2005 Author CID Share Posted March 18, 2005 and an svchost taking up 10,000k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted March 18, 2005 CID Share Posted March 18, 2005 thats normal, svchost contains most of the networking processes, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted March 18, 2005 CID Share Posted March 18, 2005 This is a known problem. I would boot into safe mode with networking. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ or http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/com/activescan_principal.htm should help you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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