I had this recently, forced me to reinstall since I could not track it down.
Basically Services.exes which hosts PnP & Event Log had the system at least 20% busy all the time and the idle thread was never running. Fire up an app and 100% CPU, the video crawled, etc... No malware/virus that I could find but I took no chances, than odd you have Thane Sherrington wrote: > At 11:55 PM 04/10/2006, j maccraw wrote: >> If you use SI's (now M$) process explorer you can >> track down the >> thread/dll that is eating the cpu cycles WITHIN the >> process & try to >> diagnose from there. > > It's services.exe that's chewing up the majority of the time. I've > tried the following: > Boot to safe mode - no change > Boot to MS Config Diagnostic Boot - no change (only one service is > running here.) > Updated the following drivers: video, sound, network, chipset - no change > Deleted the following components and rebooted to reinstall: IDE > controller, video, sound, network, CPU - no change > Tried Windows repair install - no change. > > I don't understand process explorer well enough to use it proficiently, > unfortunately. Does anyone have a link to a tutorial on it? I know > there is a video training course from SI, but I'm trying to avoid the > $300 charge. :) > > T > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
