Re: CPU Usage Peaks at >95% upon switching users




"Carl" <Carl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have what I hope is a simple problem. I have Windows XP Professional.
> When one person logs off the computer and another person logs on, the
> explorer.exe peaks at greater than 95% when viewed from the windows task
> manager, thus slowing down all other applications when using the computer.
> The only way I found to stop this is physically turn off, then turn on the
> computer... which has become an annoyance. However, recently I have
> needed
> to turn the computer off and on several times so explorer.exe does not go
> up
> to almost 100% CPU Usage. Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this
> problem?
>
> Thanks and very grateful,
> Carl

Find out what is using the cpu time and give its name- other than that no
one can say what it is.
Press Control-Alt and Delete at the same time- look at the list, it gives
the CPU usage. When you know what is using the time then a web search also
brings lots of help.


.



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