[H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe
I have a machine in that is running 20 to 30% CPU utilization on both explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe. I've scanned for viruses and spyware, I've updated drivers, and I've run sfc /scannow, and I've tried using MSConfig to turn off all startup programs. Anyone have any ideas? T
Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe
run Process Explorer by Sysinternals to see what is using up CPU cycles. http://www.sysinternals.com/ At 12:24 PM 10/2/2006, you wrote: I have a machine in that is running 20 to 30% CPU utilization on both explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe. I've scanned for viruses and spyware, I've updated drivers, and I've run sfc /scannow, and I've tried using MSConfig to turn off all startup programs. Anyone have any ideas? T
Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe
I have exactly the same problem, Explorer seems to be eating up CPU cycles. Sometimes the damned thing stalls and requires a reboot. - Original Message - From: "Winterlight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Hardware List" Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe run Process Explorer by Sysinternals to see what is using up CPU cycles. http://www.sysinternals.com/ At 12:24 PM 10/2/2006, you wrote: I have a machine in that is running 20 to 30% CPU utilization on both explorer.exe and taskmgr.exe. I've scanned for viruses and spyware, I've updated drivers, and I've run sfc /scannow, and I've tried using MSConfig to turn off all startup programs. Anyone have any ideas? T
Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe
At 05:52 PM 02/10/2006, Veech wrote: I have exactly the same problem, Explorer seems to be eating up CPU cycles. Sometimes the damned thing stalls and requires a reboot. Have you tried a repair install? T
Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe
If you use SI's (now M$) process explorer you can track down the thread/dll that is eating the cpu cycles WITHIN the process & try to diagnose from there. Thane Sherrington wrote: > At 05:52 PM 02/10/2006, Veech wrote: >> I have exactly the same problem, Explorer seems to be eating up CPU >> cycles. Sometimes the damned thing stalls and requires a reboot. > > Have you tried a repair install? > > T > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe
If you use SI's (now M$) process explorer you can track down the thread/dll that is eating the cpu cycles WITHIN the process & try to diagnose from there. Thane Sherrington wrote: > At 05:52 PM 02/10/2006, Veech wrote: >> I have exactly the same problem, Explorer seems to be eating up CPU >> cycles. Sometimes the damned thing stalls and requires a reboot. > > Have you tried a repair install? > > T > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe
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 $300 charge. :) T
Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe
Hi, look at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815349 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;280802 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;328885 I don't know which system do you have but this is usable for Windows 2000 and XP too. These 3 files should have the same size: C:\WINNT\system32\dllcache\services.exe C:\WINNT\system32\SERVICES.EXE C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386\services.exe CBL
Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe
At 10:03 AM 05/10/2006, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Lubom=EDr_=C8abla?= wrote: I don't know which system do you have but this is usable for Windows 2000 and XP too. I'm using XP. I'll try reinstalling SP2. These 3 files should have the same size: C:\WINNT\system32\dllcache\services.exe C:\WINNT\system32\SERVICES.EXE These two are the same. C:\WINNT\ServicePackFiles\i386\services.exe I don't have this folder, but C:\i386\services.exe is smaller and older than the other two. T
Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe
I had this recently, forced me to reinstall since I could not track it down. Basically Services.exes which hosts PnP & Event Log had the system at least 20% busy all the time and the idle thread was never running. Fire up an app and 100% CPU, the video crawled, etc... No malware/virus that I could find but I took no chances, than odd you have Thane Sherrington wrote: > At 11:55 PM 04/10/2006, j maccraw wrote: >> If you use SI's (now M$) 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
RE: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe
Two thoughts on this.. Malware is a definite possibility.. I'd run HiJackThis! to see what's loading.. Secondly any strange USB devices? Bill
