Re: Performance problem with Windows XP can't figure it out.



What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements? What is your
firewall?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Toy Yoda wrote:
On Dec 4, 12:00 pm, "Gerry" <ge...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is the image name of the process producing high CPU usage? If
it is
one of the svchost entries you should use Process Explorer to
identify
which.

Download Process Explorer.
For further information about Process Explorer see
here:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/Proce...

It would be helpful if you could post the Command Line of the svchost
process generating the excessive CPU usage. In Process Explorer place
cursor on Process and select Properties, Image.

What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements? What is your
firewall?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Toy Yoda wrote:
Hello.

My dell laptop running Windows XP SP 3. Appears starting an app,
closing an app. Even right clicking to display a drop down menu can
take time. Drilling down the start menu's sub menu's (example
Clicking start > settings > control panel ) can take time to draw
each
menu. It's almost as if the computer is caching. Music stutters on
itunes.

Laptop has wireless connection but is also docked with an ethernet
cable attached.

I just can't figure out what is causing all the cpu usage, when a
clear majority of them are at 0 cpu and the ones that have usage
don't
appear to be using too much resources.

any suggestions are welcome

thanks.

System properties:

Genuine Intel(R) CPU
T2600 @ 2.16GHz
994MHz, 2.00 GB of RAM
Physical Address Extension

If I look at the Windows Task Manager:

The performance tab:

CPU Usage: Fluctuates alot even with little to know user activity.
It
fluctuates beteen 40% to 100%, It looks like a seismograph.

PF Usage: 406MB.
Hangles: 12380
Threads: 534
Processes: 59

Physical Memory
Total: 2095216
Available: 1479264
System Cache 763076

Commit Charge
Total: 416536
Limit: 5081060
Peak: 703012

Kernel Memory
Total 129624
Paged: 111104
Nonpaged: 18576

On the networking tab: Utilization almost always zero. Network
Connect Adapter is in a non-operational state.
All other items appear okay.

Under processes tab:

System Idle Process is usually around 50-60%.
Mem usage for any process does not appear that high.

Applications tab:

Two applications running.- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks for the suggestion I will try it out. As for the process using
high cpu usage, there really isn't clearly a dominant one. The cpu
usage added together for all the cpu's listed add up to much less than
the total cpu usage which is what makes it puzzling. Perhaps the top
5 process in terms of cpu usage is less than half the total cpu
usage. After the top 5, you get nearly a few 1-5 cpu usage per
process and most processes have 0 usage.

Mem usage doesn't look unusally high either.


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