Is killing my computer for some reason lately...i open the task manager and it's constantly jumping from 40% to 80-90% with hardly anything open. I've run msconfig and there's nothing odd turned on, i've run all the spybot/adaware stuff to see if there is anything lurking, and nothing

what in the world could be causing this? It causes my computer to just completely lock up at least once a day

actually i may have figured it out

i had my camera card reader hooked up to my computer, and apparently it was malfunctioning or something, so i unplugged it and everything seems to have sped up...let's see if it stays that way

[Edited on February 21, 2006 at 9:15 PM. Reason : .]

yeah that's a negative, right when i closed the browser it shot to 90% again

[Edited on February 21, 2006 at 9:18 PM. Reason : .]

2/21/2006 9:13:15 PM

i couldnt figure it out on my pc, ended up reinstalling for other reasons which cleared it up

2/21/2006 11:35:28 PM

i had the same problem, it was a bitch to figure out.

apparently there's an spyware/trojan thing called explorer.exe that resides in c:\\windows\system32

the real explorer.exe is c:\\windows

i found this when trying to clear it up, maybe it will help
http://easyrcon.com/spyremove/

2/22/2006 12:17:54 AM

install OS X 10.4.5

problem solved

2/22/2006 1:05:56 AM

^ my powerbook updated to 10.4.5 the other day, and it wouldn't boot back up

i had to archive and install the OS

2/22/2006 1:28:51 AM

10.4.5 has a check for loser feature, it detected you

2/22/2006 1:31:24 AM

i had to send it off today because the HDD quit working, and the display was fucked up

2/22/2006 1:41:57 AM

Try viewing some additional columns in task manager and let us know if anything has an excessively high count. Would recommend thread count, virtual memory size, page faults, io reads bytes, io write bytes to start with.

Also, what happens if you End Task and then manually restart it?

2/22/2006 6:35:03 AM

My mini did the same thing, acted like it couldn't find the harddrive. Popped in the OS disc (without hitting C) and it decided to find the harddrive.

Just took awhile to actually login.

2/22/2006 1:52:14 PM

are we talking macs or pcs here?
i've got something similar going on. if spybot and symantec would detect what chop mentioned, than i'm good.

also, i have 50 gajillion copies of svchost.exe running:

not shown are:


crss.exe
savroam.exe
smss.exe
msdtc.exe
svchost.exe
system/system idle

2/22/2006 2:05:47 PM