Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe

2006-10-05 Thread Lubomír Čabla 
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

2006-10-05 Thread j maccraw 
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
 
 

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RE: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe

2006-10-05 Thread Bill 

 Two thoughts on this..

Malware is a definite possibility..

I'd run HiJackThis! to see what's loading..

Secondly any strange USB devices?

Bill

Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe

2006-10-04 Thread j maccraw 
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
 
 


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Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe

2006-10-04 Thread j maccraw 
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
 
 


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Re: [H] High CPU on Explorer.exe and TaskMgr.exe

2006-10-03 Thread Thane Sherrington 

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

2006-10-02 Thread Winterlight 

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

2006-10-02 Thread Veech 
I have exactly the same problem, Explorer seems to be eating up CPU cycles. 
Sometimes the damned thing stalls and requires a reboot.



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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