Thanks Rick, but nothing going on there either and nothing shows in the Task Manager, just a bunch of processes running. I guess I will have to try to work the suggestions from Rob if I can figure it out. I even went in and unticked everything in Startup tab and rebooted. Didn't help. Jim
-----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Cogan Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 10:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to identify running process ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 10:08 > Does the offending process appear in Task Manager? > > Try sorting by CPU %age, setting it to a high update frequency and seeing > what eats the CPU. > > If nothing is apparent try downloading the free 'Process Explorer' as it > has a nice %CPU graph per process which is good for tracking down things > like this. > > Rob > > Jim Poer wrote: >> I have something that is running about every 25 seconds. The hour glass >> will >> show next to the pointer and everything will slow down for about 5 >> seconds. >> It just started. I have used every spyware program I have and cleaned out >> every extra file and registry entry and run antivirus. I have taken off >> useless programs and used all system tools and defragged. I put on no new >> programs lately and I am on HiSpeed cable with XP Home. I don't know how >> to >> read the event viewer that well, actually not at all, so I don't know >> what >> to look for. Can anyone give guidance. This event is really slowing down >> everything including browsing, loading files, opening programs. Look in the Scheduled Tasks, if you haven't already, and see if there is an entry there that is running every 30 seconds. Regards, ************************************* Rick Cogan from Melbourne, FL [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
