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Hi,

I am running Vista Home Basic on a new computer. I have been having trouble
with my computer running 'hard'. I ran Process Explorer and seem to have two
things taking most of my CPU. One is called dispatch interrupt (two) and the
other the Shell Lightweight Library. I am not a very well versed in
computers, but I do know when my computer is straining.

Could someone help me understand my problem so I can fix it? I don't run my
computer very long at a time because I am afraid that I will burn it up.
 
check with tech support of the computer manufacturer.
neither program sounds like something native to vista.



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Hi,

I am running Vista Home Basic on a new computer. I have been having trouble
with my computer running 'hard'. I ran Process Explorer and seem to have two
things taking most of my CPU. One is called dispatch interrupt (two) and the
other the Shell Lightweight Library. I am not a very well versed in
computers, but I do know when my computer is straining.

Could someone help me understand my problem so I can fix it? I don't run my
computer very long at a time because I am afraid that I will burn it up.
 
bratty said:
Hi,

I am running Vista Home Basic on a new computer. I have been having trouble
with my computer running 'hard'. I ran Process Explorer and seem to have two
things taking most of my CPU. One is called dispatch interrupt (two) and the
other the Shell Lightweight Library. I am not a very well versed in
computers, but I do know when my computer is straining.

Could someone help me understand my problem so I can fix it? I don't run my
computer very long at a time because I am afraid that I will burn it up.
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Okay, if it's a new computer it's better that it burn up under warranty
than a month after the warranty expires.

Turning on and off is actually WORSE for the hardware than leaving it on
for long periods, I never turn them off if I can avoid it, certainly not
several times a day.

Vista does things in the background that take some time and after
several hours these perceived problems may just go away. This will show
up much more if the machine doesn't have a lot of memory, and it will
help someone give an opinion if you can provide a few details.
 
I have the following specs:

Intel Pentium 4.641Processor
641 Hyper Threading technology
Intel EM64T techologh operates at 3.20 GHz
800 MHz FSB
512 MB DDRS memory (7200 RPM, 8MB Cache)
160 GB hard drive
Intel 945gc Chipset
Intel Graphics Media Accelator 950

I hope this helps. I have been googling Shell Light-weight Utility Library.
Some sites say it is a trojan, others say it is a Microsoft utility and it
is at risk of attack. I would really like to know what it is. (by the way,
it this is a software problem the warranty does not cover it).
 
bratty said:
I have the following specs:

Intel Pentium 4.641Processor
641 Hyper Threading technology
Intel EM64T techologh operates at 3.20 GHz
800 MHz FSB
512 MB DDRS memory (7200 RPM, 8MB Cache)
160 GB hard drive
Intel 945gc Chipset
Intel Graphics Media Accelator 950

I hope this helps. I have been googling Shell Light-weight Utility Library.
Some sites say it is a trojan, others say it is a Microsoft utility and it
is at risk of attack. I would really like to know what it is. (by the way,
it this is a software problem the warranty does not cover it).
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I thought maybe it came pre installed with Vista.

Did you get a CD with the machine that has "Drivers" on it? If so the
maker of the machine may have updated drivers or packages on his
website. If you built the machine then the motherboard maker would be
the place to look.

Personally I think 512 is the minimum and 2 GB would be better so that
may be a factor.

One so called vulnerability dates back to 2003 so I wouldn't worry about
that one too much, I'd say you would be best served by checking for
updated motherboard drivers to make sure your hardware is being properly
used and then see if you get anything in error logs / event viewer after
running for a while.

By all means see what others have to say but as you have realized there
are a lot of explanations for almost everything out there and you have
to be careful :)
 
bratty said:
I have sent an email to the manufacturer. Thank you so much for your time.
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When I don't have time I simply never make it to the PC so time is not a
problem, however the key to some PC related problems is to avoid the
user wasting lots of time on a problem that you are sure you know the
answer to but then it turns out to be something entirely different :)

Good luck with the email, however continue to watch this newsgroup as a
simple answer may pop up at any minute :)

I think you will find an investment in more memory will help in the
future with all kinds of things but if I may add a caveat to that in
case you consider it I guess it would be to be very sure what you get is
compatible... for example you now have 1 package with 512 and would like
1 GB - buy a single 1 GB pack and remove the old one.

If you buy another 512 and they don't like each other you are no better
off, the other way you'd at least gain the memory for not much more cost.

If you upgrade to 2 GB then buy two packs from the same place at the
same time.
 
I just wanted to tell what was going on. I contacted eMachines about my
problem. They told me (as you did) to do a recovery. Since then I haven't
had any trouble of running hard. I don't know what will happen several days
from now, but so far so good.

One final comment, when backing up all of your files, make sure they did get
backed up.

Happy computing.
 
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