Re: CPU usage.

You should also run as many spyware and virus detection tools as possible to
make sure you are clean.

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Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Home SP2
P4 dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 1.0gb RAM, 160gb HD
"J" <nope@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks. I'll have a try. If that wasn't the problem I'm back to square
> one. :(
>
> "Peter" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> 55 for me would be pretty normal. There's a program out there that is
>> useful for many things, including what's active in your PC.
>> Download Winpatrol here: http://www.winpatrol.com/winpatrol.html
>> It has "Plus" paid version which gives even more info.
>>
>> --
>> Peter
>> Toronto, Canada
>> XP Home SP2
>> P4 dual HT @ 3.0ghz, 1.0gb RAM, 160gb HD
>> "J" <nope@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:eeGVOozTFHA.2520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Hi all.
>>> I use an excellent graphics program which runs slow and after checking
>>> that it's not my memory, space, spyware or virus issues, it may be that
>>> I need to get a new graphics card that will blast more.
>>> Before that though it was also suggested that I may have too many
>>> programs running in the background. I've minimised my start-up list to
>>> just antivirus and firewall and bare Window essentials.
>>> But when I go to task manager to processes, there seems to be way too
>>> much stuff there. 55 and most I don't recognise.
>>> Is there a way of finding out what these are. Or at best finding out
>>> what XP needs to have so I can stop process on the others.
>>> Thanks.
>>> J
>>>
>>
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