Re: taskmgr.exe constanly running 15% CPU

Clark wrote:
On mine, probably like yours, system idle is normally 99% if I am not running anything. Try shutting down the processes that show all the activity when nothing else is running.

Or use msconfig.exe to check for them starting up and stop it there if you can.

If she messed up the update, I suppose there could be other problems. You might also look at whether the CPU utilization changes if she is not connected to the internet. Heck, who knows, maybe she is spamming the world! ;-)

Clark

"gls858" <gls858@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:jErse.7775$1q5.6691@xxxxxxxxxxx

Clark wrote:

When you used the Task Manager, did you see any processes that were using CPU time?

Clark

"gls858" <gls858@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uagTuEscFHA.2288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


I was trying to help someone with a Dell laptop that was running
slow. I found that they had a failed SP2 upgrade listed in the
update history when I went to the windows update site. It was from
last October! Anyway when I checked the task manager it was always
running around 15% of the CPU. I removed SP2 through Add and remove
programs and re-installed. Install was successful. Went back to
windows update site and picked up the rest of the updates, 20 to be
exact. Everything installed OK, but taskmgr.exe is still taking up
about 15% of the CPU. I tried killing taskmgr.exe and it did in fact
close the task manager so I don't think it's a "look alike" malware
process running. Any ideas?




Yep a couple related to Music Match, mim.exe and MMdiag.exe, and
a couple of windows processes occasionally. System idle never got
above about 80% and taskmgr.exe was pretty constant at about 15%
the other 5% was being bounced about in the other processes above.

I'm guessing she hosed something pretty good during the SP2 update.
She told me it was taking to long so she just stopped it :-O

Younger generation just doesn't have any patience :-) She continued
to use the computer and load software after this. I suggested several
options. Remove the P2P software, remove any thing else she had loaded
recently. If that didn't work a repair install, if that didn't work
full restore. Thought I would check here first before taking one of
the last two steps, since I just got it all updated.

I did forget to mention I ran 2 anti virus programs Norton which was on
the laptop and Housecall from Trend Micro. Also ran Spybot S&D and Adaware. All came back clean.

gls858



Checked the activity off net and it was the same thing. Something is causing taskmgr.exe to run all the time. When I stop this process all it does is close the task manager. Almost look like something is wrong
with the task manager itself.

gls858
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