Re: System Idle Process constantly at 0, csrss.exe spiking every so often
- From: "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:50:35 -0000
csrss.exe is an important Windows system file. It also can be a virus, spyware, trojan or worm.
Will you please use Windows Explorer to search your hard disk for all copies of csrss.exe and post a list of all the file paths to each.
Are you running Norton and AVG at the same time?
How RAM do you have and what is your CPU speed? Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to bring Task Manager and select the Performance Tab. What is the Total, the Commit Charge and the Peak? Try switching to the Applications tab when crsse.exe spikes. What applications are shown as running.
Download Process Explorer so that you can see the tree leading to csrss.exe.
For further information about Process Explorer see here:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/procexp.shtml
To ascertain which service is causing the problem select the svchost producing the high CPU usage, right click, select Properties, Services. Note there are the full names and some explanation of what each service does.
You will find further information on Services here: http://majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=12
To trace the particular Service involved you need to turn off each service in turn and then restore it noting what effect it has on CPU usage. However, you need to take care and watch what other Services are dependent on that service. When you click on the Dependencies tab allow it a little time to display the information.
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"Kyo" <baka.kyo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1133259056.775682.90540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm using Windows XP Pro, on a 2.7ghz, 256mb RAM machine. I haven't had problems with it before but since a restart yesterday the System Idle Process is constantly 0 on the task manager, and all the CPU is being shared out between programs. Also, csrss.exe spikes to 25-50% every so often, causing applications to lock up for a few seconds.
I've run a number of virus scanners including Trend Micro, NAV, AVG and also Microsoft Anti Spyware beta 1 and SpyBot S&D which haven't picked up anything so I'm at a loss.
I installed Visual Basic 6 SP 6 recently, as well as uninstalled Cygwin completely but I'm not sure if or how those could relate at all.
Does anyone have any ideas or such as to what could be causing the problem? Thank you.
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