What are my services doing ?

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occassionaly as i'm working on the computer i notice that
it starts working on something and the cpu % rises. the
wise task manager indicates services.exe as taking my cpu
time, so i guess its one of my services doing its stuff
(my computer is highly secured so it's probably something
legit). how can i find out which service is taking my cpu
time ?
 
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occassionaly as i'm working on the computer i notice that
it starts working on something and the cpu % rises. the
wise task manager indicates services.exe as taking my cpu
time, so i guess its one of my services doing its stuff
(my computer is highly secured so it's probably something
legit). how can i find out which service is taking my cpu
time ?
.
Type in services.exe at the link below.
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http://www.pestpatrol.com/Search/SearchPestInfo.asp
 
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http://www.pestpatrol.com/Search/SearchPestInfo.asp
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I assume you have a firewall. If so make sure it checks
on, and stops, things trying to leave your computer as
well as things trying to get in. The firewall that comes
with XP does not do this. Zone Alarm does - even the free
version.

Try the security checks at:
http://www.grc.com/default.htm

on the opening page scroll down to ShieldsUp! The other
security downloads from this site are excellent (they're
on the same page).

Bill
 
thanks, guys, but i really think its a legit program,
cause i've secured my computer really well (maybe too
well?). i passed all the test in ShieldsUp! and even got
the remark 'cool!'. it seems more like some automatic
proces that's kicking in, like my backup program,
antivirus, stuff like that, but the only process i see
taking the cpu time is services.exe ... could it be one
of my running services that's hiding behind the
services.exe proces ?
 
-----Original Message-----
thanks, guys, but i really think its a legit program,
cause i've secured my computer really well (maybe too
well?). i passed all the test in ShieldsUp! and even got
the remark 'cool!'. it seems more like some automatic
proces that's kicking in, like my backup program,
antivirus, stuff like that, but the only process i see
taking the cpu time is services.exe ... could it be one
of my running services that's hiding behind the
services.exe proces ?
.
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Passing ShieldsUp! is cool! Perhaps its your indexing
service?? Start/Run services.msc
then scroll down to Indexing service and disable it and
see if that fixes it.

Bill
 
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