CPU 99% Utilization

[rcprashant]

Hello,
I have Dell Dimension 3000 Desktop with Microsoft XP Home edition.
When ever I Logged in and open explorer, it shoots up to 99% CPU
utilization.

If I kill explorer process it comes back to normal. If I start again it
goes back to 99%. and Remains on same.

Due to this my desktop become very slow. Please let me know if anyone
could help in this case.

Thanks and Regards
Prashant

 

[JS]

You need to find the specific process in that application that's taking all
the CPU resources.

To do this try Process Explorer:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

Once you have Process Explorer installed and running:
Click on the CPU column to sort processes by %CPU usage.
Then click on the and expand the process (Explorer in your case) that using
most or all the CPU %,
Select a sub process under Explorer, once it's highlighted, right click and
from the options listed select: google
This should display what out there on the web about that process.

Note: some entries like Explorer and svchost may need to be expanded to show
the detail,
in this case click on the + located to the left on the entry.


JS

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "rcprashant" <[email protected]>

| Hello,
| I have Dell Dimension 3000 Desktop with Microsoft XP Home edition.
| When ever I Logged in and open explorer, it shoots up to 99% CPU
| utilization.
|
| If I kill explorer process it comes back to normal. If I start again it
| goes back to 99%. and Remains on same.
|
| Due to this my desktop become very slow. Please let me know if anyone
| could help in this case.
|
| Thanks and Regards
| Prashant


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm

Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm


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