Modem or Tower keeps "running"

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Tami

Sometimes its seems for no apparant reason my tower
will "kick in" and start running. Sometimes it does this
for a short time....and others, it just seems to not want
to stop. Can someone explaine to me what it is
doing...or if it should be doing this? THANK YOU!
 
It might be the windows xp housekeeping tasks.
Is your system set to go into standby, or just power off the monitor if its
not doing anything,
If its in standby, is it set to wake up if it sees any modem or lan
activity.
Have you scheduled any background tasks yourself which you have fogotten
about like virus scans(if not, why not) or defragmentation or automated
backups ?

Is this a standalone home system, a member of a workgroup or a member of a
domain ?


Paul
 
It's not housekkeeping tasks. My system goes into
standby...and is set to wake up with activity. I do have
it run a virus check every 24 hours....no auto.
defragmentation is set....i do it all manually. This is
a stand alone home system. It's been running for 3 days
now. I did a system restore point...and took it back to
Tuesday ..before it started doing this...when it rebooted
it started doing it again!!!..grrrrrrrrr. I started
getting a pop up before it started doing
that ...something about the SahAgent.exe...and it needed
to close that program..seems its been doing this almost
ever since?? Any ideas???
 
I've had a quick google and sahagent is spyware
Remove it, and see if the problem goes away, but remember windows xp does
have internal stuff it runs every now and then when the pc is idle, but it
normally doesn't run for more than a few minutes.

http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ShopAtHomeSelect.html

You should also perhaps run some adchecking software over your system like
adaware

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

And Spybot

http://www.safer-networking.org/

Also make sure you update your virus definitions regularly.

If you have xp pro you could post a tasklist,

start/run
cmd

tasklist /svc > tasklist.txt

And cut/paste into a reply and I'll see it there are any other processes I
dont't recognise.

Paul
 
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