High CPU usage

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I recently had some repairs done to my PC (Win XP Home,
AMD 7 1500+, 256 Mb RAM, temporary S3 PCI Graphics card,
Sound Blaster, Kinetiz 7E Motherboard, USB Wireless Cable
modem).
There were hardware faults (a faulty Graphics card and a
faulty NIC card) which made the PC work very erratically.
Now all the major errors I had seem to be gone, only,
after a bit of use, the PC shows me between 94 and 100%
CPU usage and starts acting very sluggishly.
I have ordered an AGP Geforce graphics card, but for the
time being there is the PCI one in there. Could this have
something to do with the problem ?
Or is it some or other setting in my Pagefile or
Swapfile that should be changed ?
By the waythe PC is also serving as Gateway on a 3 PC
network and is connected to a USB Cable Modem.
Any help will be gratefully accepted.

Thanks in advance.
 
Newsscanner said:
I recently had some repairs done to my PC (Win XP Home,
AMD 7 1500+, 256 Mb RAM, temporary S3 PCI Graphics card,
Sound Blaster, Kinetiz 7E Motherboard, USB Wireless Cable
modem).
There were hardware faults (a faulty Graphics card and a
faulty NIC card) which made the PC work very erratically.
Now all the major errors I had seem to be gone, only,
after a bit of use, the PC shows me between 94 and 100%
CPU usage and starts acting very sluggishly.
I have ordered an AGP Geforce graphics card, but for the
time being there is the PCI one in there. Could this have
something to do with the problem ?
Or is it some or other setting in my Pagefile or
Swapfile that should be changed ?
By the waythe PC is also serving as Gateway on a 3 PC
network and is connected to a USB Cable Modem.
Any help will be gratefully accepted.

Thanks in advance.
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What processes are using the highest percentage of the CPU?
 
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What processes are using the highest percentage of the CPU?
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At the moment (after running some anti spyware software)
the "System Idle Process" (up to 97%).
Running Ad-aware has improved things but not 100%, The
Win Home XP Splash screen is also quite slow, the green
bar moves slowly and sometimes stops for a while, and
sometimes my mouse pointer goes a bit jerky as well. So,
something is still slowing down the system.
BTW. Thanks for your reply.
 
Newsscanner said:
At the moment (after running some anti spyware software)
the "System Idle Process" (up to 97%).
Running Ad-aware has improved things but not 100%, The
Win Home XP Splash screen is also quite slow, the green
bar moves slowly and sometimes stops for a while, and
sometimes my mouse pointer goes a bit jerky as well. So,
something is still slowing down the system.
BTW. Thanks for your reply.
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System Idle is the amount that's not being used, so if that's at 97%, you're
only using 3%. So you're going to need to look elsewhere for clues.

If ad-aware did you some good, try running spybot search & destroy as well.
They're both good programs, but they each tend to find different pests. And
keep running both until they come up clean.
 
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